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Information Today
November 17, 2015
Cheryl Ann Peltier-Davis |
Facebook Launches TechPrep Website to Kick-Start Programming Careers for Minorities This rich resource hub serves up reference materials, tutorials, videos, games, and apps targeted to audiences of varying ages and programming experience.   |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Harvard Study Finds Oakland's Asian Airbnb Hosts Earn Less Than White Hosts The research paper found that Asian hosts on average earn $90 less per week or 20% less than white hosts for similar rentals. |
Information Today
November 3, 2015 |
Adam Matthew Offers Free Sources on Historic Black Community Free access to The Weeksville Exhibition, part of the recently released African American Communities collection, is being offered for the month of November 2015. |
Fast Company
November 2015
Vauhini Vara |
Inside Pinterest's Plans To Fix Its Diversity Problem Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann and cofounder Evan Sharp gathered the majority of their more than 600 employees in the office cafeteria to discuss how to make their workforce more diverse. |
Registered Rep.
September 2, 2015
Megan Leonhardt |
A Different Approach to Diversity About a third of the U.S. population consider themselves members of a racial or ethnic minority; within the financial services industry, about 8 percent identify as such, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Twitter Made Its Diversity Goals Public, But They Aren't Very Drastic Twitter matched Pinterest's effort on Friday, when it announced its own goals to increase the number of women and underrepresented minorities at the company. |
Information Today
July 23, 2015 |
Adam Matthew Will Publish Civil Rights Archive An agreement was reached with the Amistad Research Center in New Orleans to digitally publish documents from its Race Relations Department of the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries, covering 1943-1970. |
Fast Company
Pavithra Mohan |
App Used 23andMe's DNA Database To Block People From Sites Based On Race And Gender Personal genetics company 23andMe discovered that a programmer had used its open API to create a screening mechanism for websites -- which could effectively block people by race, sex, and ancestry. |
Chemistry World
June 24, 2015
Rebecca Trager |
US may have tested mustard gas on troops by race National Public Radio has uncovered evidence that these test subjects were divided by race. |
Fast Company
Jul/Aug 2015
Austin Carr |
The Inside Story of Starbucks's Race Together Campaign, No Foam Starbucks made waves with the "Race Together" initiative, an effort to spark a national dialogue about race. It was a bold idea that backfired. |
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