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  • Tech Needs to Do the Work to Find Black Excellence, but You Can Do Your Part, Too

    The Uber fallout of recent weeks makes something my grandmother used to tell me more important than ever now: “To get something you don’t have, you’ll have to do something you haven’t done. You’re a black woman. So, to do that, you’ll have to work twice as hard to get half as far.” However, the…

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    Bari A. Williams






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    March 11, 2017
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Bari A. Williams






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