Young, Geeky and Black: Memphis

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2015

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

James Fletcher travels to one of America’s poorest cities to meet a passionate group of people working hard to get young, black women into technology and tech jobs.

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0:00.0	Good morning. My name is Tasea Marshall. Welcome to Black Girls
0:08.4	called Memphis. If this is your first time today you're going to be building robots. You are going to build
0:15.2	them and then you're going to program and they're going to work.
0:18.6	Hello I'm James Fletcher and we're in a lecture theater at the University of Memphis, Tennessee.
0:25.4	50 or so African American girls aged from 10 to 16 are about to take a computer coding and robotics
0:32.0	class with a difference.
0:34.0	Somebody say, oh yeah!
0:37.0	This class is all about fun, but with a serious point.
0:45.0	Black Girls Code was founded to bring STEM awareness, technology awareness to women of color.
0:50.0	Okay, so whether you want to do computer science, engineering,
0:53.3	whether you want to do straight program or coding,
0:55.5	whatever it is, we want to bring that to girls of color.
1:01.0	Name a favorite website or app. Google, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and chances are it was invented
1:07.2	by white men who are now worth billions of dollars. But the power and economic opportunity
1:12.4	that coding and technology offer aren't equally accessible to everyone.
1:17.0	How many famous black female tech entrepreneurs can you name?
1:21.0	If you're struggling, keep listening to meet the people who want to change that.
1:26.1	Over the next three weeks, the BBC World Services Young Geeky and Black series will feature
1:30.9	black coders around the world. This week we're in Memphis.
1:35.0	What is programming? It's all about giving what?
1:38.0	Instructions. It is not rocket science.
1:42.0	It is not brain surgery. It is simply what?
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