TXCS Student Creates App to Help Austin’s Black Community
![Earl Potts sits on a golden couch at the AfroTech Conference for Black students in computer science](/sites/default/files/styles/275_x_150/public/2023-09/Student_run_CourtesyofEarlPottsJr_5x7.jpg?itok=HscglchI)
07/09/2020 - Earl Potts, a Texas Computer Science (TXCS) and African and African Diaspora Studies student, created the app “Keep Austin Black” to provide Austinites with an extensive directory of local Black-owned businesses. Though Potts initially started working on the app in October 2019, he went back to working on “Keep Austin Black” as a response to the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests going on throughout the United States.