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Tech Diversity Nonprofit Code2040’s New Class Of Fellows Is The Largest Ever
Fortune - Grace Donnelly
Code2040, a nonprofit addressing the racial wealth gap by increasing representation of marginalized groups in the U.S. tech workforce, just announced …
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Diversity in Tech: Obama's TechHire Kicks Into Gear With $100M Grant Competition
latinpost.com - By Robert Schoon First Posted: Nov 19, 2015 02:11 PM EST
As big Silicon Valley firms up their efforts to diversify their mostly white, male workforces, the Obama administration's TechHire initiative has …
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Hank Williams: 'Tech is hard for even the most talented African Americans'
The Guardian - Kwan Booth in San Francisco
The entrepreneur and diversity advocate, who died aged 50, spent three decades battling for a tech industry that better represented multicultural America “Market makers,” wrote American entrepreneur and technologist Hank Williams shortly before he died, “are the folks that help new young companies …
http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2015/11/apple_and_thurgood_marshall_college_fund_build_tech_pipeline_for_hbcu_scholars.html
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Tech entrepreneur, diversity advocate Hank Williams dies at 50
USA TODAY - Mike Snider
Supporters of increasing diversity in the technology industry are mourning the loss of a veteran entrepreneur at the forefront of the issue. Hank Williams, 50, a resident of New York City, died Sunday at Newark (N.J.) Beth Israel Medical Center after a weeklong hospital stay. He was being treated …
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Wanted: 10,000 Black Engineers
ibtimes.com - Michael Learmonth
For tech companies looking to diversify their ranks, it’s going to get worse before it gets better. While the number of engineering degrees issued by …