 OK, so you might be asking, who is behind this site?Glad that you
asked. The people behind Blackpeople.com are the best that Black America
has to offer. We are inner city raised high achievers who have great
credentials and remember where we came from. In fact, most of us live and
operate our businesses from inner city, predominantly Black communities (a/k/a
'the hood.')
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| Ken Granderson |
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Kenneth A. Granderson, an MIT alumnus and ethnic technology pioneer, is the
Founder, President and Chief System Architect of Blackpeople.com. With a
solid decade of experience in creating desktop and online technologies focusing
on the awareness and acceptance of computer and online technology in
communities of color and low-income communities, Ken is one of a select few
individuals in the industry with his depth of experience.Ken has been building
online communities since 1997 and has launched several ethnic online
communities on a local scale. Blackpeople.com has been on paper since
1996 but it is only now that the US online ethnic community has moved out of
its infancy and toward its adolescence that it is truly ready for
Blackpeople.com.
Ken has a Bachelor of Sciences degree from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, and an Honorary Doctorate in Human Letters from Salem State College
for his online community building initiatives. Ken grew up in the
Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York and is a resident of the
Dorchester section of Boston, Massachusetts. He is a member of the Kappa
Aplha Psi Fraternity, Inc. and sits of the Board of Directors of the Freedom
House and the D2D (Doorways to Dreams) Fund, two Roxbury, Massachusetts
organizations.
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| Erick Jean |
Erick Jean is Blackpeople.com's Executive Vice President. Mr.
Jean received his Bachelor of Science in Economics from Northeastern
University and a Juris Doctorate degree from Suffolk University Law School.
Presently, Mr. Jean is a consultant with Northeastern University where he
advises on retention issues affecting Black and Latino students.
Mr. Jean is affiliated with the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., and the
Concerned Black Men of Massachusetts. He is an officer with both organizations.
Mr. Jean is also a member of the Board of Directors with the Four Corners Main
Street, a non-profit community development corporation.
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| York Eggleston IV |
York is Blackpeople.com's Investor Liasion. York is a new media
veteran who sits on the board of several new media and Internet technology
companies, and is regarded as a rising technology visionary.
York has developed or co-developed several media and technology businesses over
the last ten years, including Crave Technologies, Diva Enterprises, Zenspace,
Inc. and Quality of Life Networks, Inc. Prior to founding Crave, York worked
for an international consulting firm (Booz-Allen Hamilton), an investment bank
(Saloman Brothers), and served as the Senior Investment Officer of a
Maryland-based venture firm.
York has an undergraduate degree from Harvard College and a graduate degree with
distinction from the Harvard Business School. York lives in Baltimore,
Maryland.
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