Jamal Michel

Freelance Journalist

United States

Jamal is a writer based on the east coast. His games writing has been featured in The Washington Post, USA Today, Poynter, Wired, and others. His creative work has been published in The Missouri Review, the minnesota review, Apogee Journal, and Linden Avenue Journal, to name a few.

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Washington Post
01/31/2022
Perspective | Black game developers: Diversity push is lots of talk, little progress

I first learned about Gerald "Jerry" Lawson, one of Silicon Valley's greatest gaming pioneers, a few years ago. Back in the 1970s, he and his team ushered in one of the earliest versions of consoles that utilized game cartridges - the same technology Nintendo would find infinitely more success producing for its debut home video game console a decade later.