Blavity

is basically, she's the founder of Afrotech.

She's the CEO of Blavity.

She's done phenomenal work in the black tech space and has really had a lot to say about a variety of issues.

I think that some of her commentary has been extraordinarily insightful, But there was a discussion that she had with one of the earlier leisure podcast bros.

And so we started working with folks like Revolt, who's been with us for quite some time now, to take what they have in their audience, again, in that same privacy-first environment, but being able to reach their audience across all of CTV through our partnerships.

And most recently onboarded Blavity and Asian Crush and Retro Crush through Centerverse and even more partnerships on the horizon that I can't wait to share in the future.

You're quite, I guess if you want to call it like very niche, right? Like you're targeting a group that is often, like you said, not targeted directly.

So you're creating this privacy safe environment that can serve the community, the right type of content, content that they may be interested in.

with.

Morgan de Born, founder of Blavity, founder of Afrotech, which is like one of the largest conferences in America.

I want more people who look like me and you, who are women, who are moms, starting businesses and using these tools so that they're able to maintain their quality of life and make more money.

To make more money, we need to build an agent that's only job is to be your chief revenue officer.

I need to put like a disclaimer on the bottom of this podcast.

And we were talking about the fact, she was talking about you as like a teacher, the fact that you really love sharing information.

And it was so interesting to me because I think about some of the things that you've done, right? Like you're the founder of Blavity, which is a successful business, founder of Afrotech, which is like one of the largest conferences in America, especially in the tech space.

You have a huge personal brand.

So let's take a look at this.

This is the CEO of Blavity Networks.

Listen to what she went online and said this week.

Black media companies are in trouble.

Let me show you a few reasons why.

Hi, I'm Morgan Devon, CEO of Blavity and Afrotech.

We own Travel Noir and a bunch of different other brands.

And so we're one of the largest digital publishers for Black audiences in the world.

Morgan D.

Bond, the force behind Afrotech, Blavity, You are one of the most influential people in tech.

As far as your research and well-respected, you play a part in government.

We've had conversations about a lot of different things.

So let's get into it.

Okay.

But people that are not familiar and have just heard of Blavity, they've heard of Afrotech.

You've done a good job with like us, we're not afforded the luxury of not being in front of the camera.

It's the same creative team for the whole company.

At Blavity, it's the same talent team for the whole company.

So we're able to get economies of scale because we decided to collaborate and bring other businesses in underneath the Blavity Inc. portfolio, and that has allowed us to then spend more time doing our CEO task and less time doing the operating tasks.

So if all those barber shops were able to say, "You know what? I'm gonna set my ego aside.

It doesn't need to be called Jojo's Barber Shop and Becky Q's Barber Shop and da, da, da barber shop.

A diverse coalition of congressional caucuses say a multi-million dollar investment by the Trump administration in HBCUs and TCCUs is not what it seems.

According to Blavity, the group says the money being invested are funds taken from Hispanic and minority students and other programs.

The Education Department recently announced an investment of $174 million in historically Black colleges and universities, and an additional investment of $61 million in the tribally controlled colleges and universities, which focus on Indigenous Americans.

Members of the Congressional Coalition say they saw the same playbook last year and called the funding a cynical ploy to pit minority communities against each other.