Clayton Banks has been sounding the alarm about the digital divide for decades. He started Silicon Harlem in 2013 with the goal of doing more than bringing internet equity to that historic neighborhood, but to transform Harlem and other urban areas into innovation and technology hubs. 

While the company has been successful in bringing innovated tech companies to the area, ending the digital divide with affordable internet has proved elusive. Banks joined In Focus to talk about his vision: to make broadband access not only affordable, but free to those who need it, like affordable and public housing units and senior centers. 

He said he knows it won't be easy, but laid out his ideas that stem from an already-built infrastructure and the need to save another generation of students from falling behind because they lack access to the internet.