Persist Until Something Happens (P.U.S.H) – A Clarion call for Africa the 2014 CUNY YAL Symposium, New York by Sophia Bekele

Themed “Standing on The Shoulders of Giants: Our History. Our Legacy. Our Destiny.”, The 2014 CUNY Young African Leadership Symposium (YALS) brought together 200+ African youth in the diaspora to collectively think about the following questions the lessons that could be learned from Africa’s giants and how they guide our journey to moving Africa forward, …

.NYC Landrush: PR Blitz Registrars Try to Generate Buzz For Address in the Big Apple

Adage: Beginning today, New Yorkers can be masters of their own domain. This is the first day that the .nyc domain is available to the public, and to get the five boroughs fired up about applying, PR events and campaigns are taking place around the city to generate buzz. Neustar, the registry services company supporting …

.nyc: New York’s hottest new real estate exists only on the Internet

Washington Post Writes:  A vast new stretch of digital real estate opened on Monday in New York City, where several dozen local businesses, non-profits and institutions went live online with enviable new dot-nyc Web sites. The early settlers include a savvy local photographer (casey.nyc), a beekeeping association (bees.nyc), a renowned jazz club (birdland.nyc), a university …