[4] Benton has been featured in numerous national and international media outlets including CNN's award-winning documentary series by Soledad O'Brien Black in America: The New Promised Land: Silicon Valley[5], MSNBC,[6] Bloomberg Television,[7] Inc,[8] Forbes,[9] Good Morning America[10], and the Wall Street Journal[11] where she was a featured essayist for the paper's 125th Anniversary edition on "The Future of Entrepreneurship".
The site quickly gain community amongst Black digerati and early adopters, giving them a place to be heard and featured.
The duo often critiqued products and the digital strategies of African-American media businesses and forecasted trends in the arena, as such they quickly became the leading experts in the space.
The program was largely responsible for being a catalyst for elevating the conversation around diversity in the technology industry for both ethnic minorities[14] and women.
[1] The NewME Accelerator's inaugural class was featured on CNN's fourth installment of Black in America reported by award-winning journalist Soledad O'Brien.
[18] At the height of the debate tech maven Michael Arrington, known for off color comments, became a target for out lash on the topic.