Nationwide — Terysa Ridgeway, a pioneering African-American computer scientist and celebrated children’s book author, is on a mission to ignite a passion for coding among children worldwide. With an ...

ATLANTA (CNN) -- Studies have shown that even among middle class and upper-income African-American families, only about 11 percent have computers at home, compared to 70 percent of white families.

It’s not often that people choose a major without knowing anything about the subject, but in the 10th grade, that’s just what Bukola Somide did. A friend at the time, who was senior, told Somide about ...

Though Juan Gilbert doesn’t necessarily like recalling his days as the lone African-American student in the University of Cincinnati’s doctoral program in computer science, he uses the experience as a ...