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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 …

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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 …