black people in tech
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Black Google Employee Said She Was Fired for Calling Out the Company's Treatment of Minority Employees
A Black woman known as a “rare voice of public criticism” at Google has been fired by the tech company after sending an internal email calling out the company’s treatment of minority employees—and in particular, those who are Black and female. Timnit Gebru, who co-led the Ethical Artificial Intelligence team at Google, is considered a…
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Black Facebook Workers Write Open Letter to Company: We Are Treated Every Day 'As If We Do Not Belong Here'
One year after a black Facebook employee accused the social media giant of failing its black employees and users, a group of Facebook employees published an anonymous memo saying the culture at the company has only gotten worse for nonwhite workers. Published on Medium last week, the letter documents a variety of micro- and full-blown…
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No Surprises in Uber’s 1st Diversity Report: Tech Company Is Mostly White and Male but Promises to Work on That
Uber is a tech company, and like most tech companies, it’s mostly white and mostly male. This is what the transportation-network company’s first diversity report reveals, in news that is perhaps shocking to none. The report, which was released on the company’s website Tuesday afternoon, shows pretty much what anyone would expect, except perhaps, in…