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Showing posts with label tech. Show all posts
Saturday, September 26, 2020

African American Lead Technology Startup In Los Angeles Raises $225 million

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A new American startup is creating history by receiving the largest investment ever for an African American lead technology startup in the...
Thursday, April 18, 2019

Peggy Alford First African American Woman Nominated to Facebook Board of Directors

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MENLO PARK, Calif., April 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Facebook has announced that Peggy Alford, Senior Vice President, Core Markets of P...
Thursday, April 12, 2018

Black Caucus member tells Zuckerberg Facebook is 'not nearly' diverse enough

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Congressional Black Caucus member G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C., told Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Wednesday that his efforts to include more...
Friday, January 19, 2018

Facebook appoints first African American to its Board of Directors

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Facebook announced today the addition of Kenneth I. Chenault, CEO of American Express, to its board of directors. His appointment become...
Monday, July 10, 2017

Morehouse sophomore invents app to help students find jobs

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Courtlynd “Justice” Mallory is a sophomore Business Management major from Albany, New York at Morehouse College. In August of 2016, J...
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Friday, March 24, 2017

Howard University campus opening at Google in diversity push

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Google is trying something new to boost diversity. The tech giant is partnering with Howard University to launch "Howard West,...
Thursday, March 02, 2017

Apple investors reject diversity proposal

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Apple touts its commitment to diversity, but its shareholders don’t seem to care all that much about it. On Tuesday, Apple investors o...
Saturday, October 01, 2016

Black engineers in Silicon Valley get big assist

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Ime Archibong was eating lunch on Facebook's Silicon Valley campus with former colleague Makinde Adeagbo last year when Adeagbo pitc...
Thursday, September 08, 2016

Airbnb makes changes to halt racist, discriminatory practices

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Airbnb announced potentially far-reaching anti-discrimination policies Thursday in response to complaints about hosts' racism again...
Friday, July 01, 2016

Google adds first black board member.

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Google parent company Alphabet is adding finance chops and diversity to its board with the appointment of economist Roger Ferguson. ...
Friday, May 23, 2014

Jesse Jackson presses Facebook on lack of diversity

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[ SOURCE ] Jesse Jackson isn’t keeping quiet about the lack of diversity in the tech industry’s ranks. The civil rights veteran and...