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Sherrell Dorsey Is on a Mission to Make Space for Black People In Tech
I was kind of always the only woman or the only person of color in the room and I thought this doesn’t make any sense. Why are we not seeing greater representation that matches the diversity that we have? —Sherrell Dorsey text Sherrell Dorsey is a data and technology journalist who is putting more black…
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National Urban League’s 2018 ‘State of Black America’: Tech Companies Don’t Care About Employing Black People
After listing wage inequality, housing discrimination and the education gap, feel free to add “digital inequality” to the long checklist of disparities in America. The National Urban League’s 2018 “State of Black America” report reveals that there is still some work to be done in the country’s technological sector. This year’s report uses its patented…
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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…