According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the COVID-19 pandemic put extreme stress on the healthcare workforce leading to shortages, increased worker burnout, exhaustion, and trauma. These pandemic-related challenges exacerbated pre-existing workforce…
Medical exploitation of Black bodies and medical racism are part of America’s storied history. Scientific racism was invented to justify the African slave trade with European scientists of that day arguing that African men were…
The United States spends more on healthcare than other comparatively wealthy countries such as Switzerland and Germany. It is also the only developed country without a universal healthcare system with a significant number of Americans…
Popular with teens, misunderstood by adults, and highly sought after by venture capitalists, Ade Olonoh‘s Formspring was the “it” app of the 2000s. Its popularity has been compared to Snapchat today. An immediate success, Formspring…
On a mission to democratize wealth-building, former investment banker Avion Gray co-founded Belong in 2023 to educate, inform, and empower young investors. The platform launched earlier this year after securing €3.4 million ($3.7 million) in…
David Rice Hedgley, Jr. has been described as the father of 3D graphics. His paper explaining the solution to the groundbreaking hidden-line problem in computer 3D graphics was initially met with criticism. Today, Hedgley’s algorithm…
Consumers constantly need ingenuity, innovation, and a groundbreaking shift – be it in entertainment, technology, or even food. But how do you create something new and exciting when everything has already been done? You tweak…
Terysa Ridgeway is the Technical Program Manager, Mergers and Acquisitions at Google and the author of the popular Terysa Solves It book series. Recently, she launched Alilo the Explorer, a toy robot that teaches children…
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