America21′s Mike Green featured in Oregon Business Mag
In the past decade, much of the new wealth creation and job growth in the United States has occurred in the startup technology sectors. “But those types of innovations and market disruptions are not happening across black America,” says Green, who is also a part-time blogger. The reasons “are systemic, historical and institutional, and someone has to address it.” Programs that try to alleviate the economic inequities plaguing African-American... Read More
Mike Green shares economic dream on MLK Day 2012
Around a thousand people gathered today at the Oregon Convention Center for The Skanner newspaper’s 26th Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast. The guests of honor included Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and Patrick Quinton, executive director of the Portland Development Commission. Keynote speaker was Mike Green … Photo by Cornelius Swart The article written by Cornelius Swart and published in the Oregonian... Read More
PHOTOS: A21 screening of CNN’s Black in America 4 at University of Portland
(All photos by Mungai Media/Ticole Waller) The America21 Project produced a screening of the CNN documentary, “Black in America: New Promised Land, Silicon Valley,” on Nov. 4 sponsored by the University of Portland and hosted at the university’s Shiley Hall of Engineering. Dean Sharon Jones was joined by Jon Down from the university’s Center for Entrepreneurship. Both played host to The America21 Project and 70 local leaders... Read More
