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With HFR x Google's 1st Fashion Summit, Harlem's Fashion Row Pays It Forward
On Friday, February 15, in a room full of some of fashion’s most influential and aspirational people, Harlem’s Fashion Row founder Brandice Daniel delivered a bleak statistic: Less than 1% of designers sold in major department stores are of color. However, even in that moment, change was already afoot, thanks in large part to Google,…
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Trump Googled Himself This Morning and Got Sad. Now the White House Is Looking Into Regulating the Search Engine
The president of people who walk their children on a leash is a self-absorbed, narcissistic, ego-maniac who can’t stop talking about himself and the believed war against his presidency. On Tuesday, the president was up earlier looking at combover tutorials and tiki torch reviews on YouTube when he decided to Google himself. Naturally, he didn’t…
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Try This: Google Image Search 'Idiot' and See What Appears (Hint: His Name Rhymes With Flonald Dump)
It isn’t often in these harsh times that the world gives us something to smile about, but if you Google image search the word “idiot” pictures of President Trump miraculously appear. It’s as if the Google algorithms feel the pain of the oppressed. It’s as if the spirits of our ancestors have infused the Google…
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Google Has a Hard Time Keeping Black Employees
Google has released a report admitting that it is struggling to keep its black employees. “Attrition rates in 2017 were highest for Black Googlers followed by Latinx Googlers, and lowest for Asian Googlers,” the report says (pdf). “Black Googler attrition rates, while improving in recent years, have offset some of our hiring gains, which has…
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On Day of Chicago Vlogger’s Funeral, Friend Is Slain [Corrected]
Coverage Falls to Postings on Social Media Immigrants Held a Special Place With Bourdain Washington Post Breaks Story of Migrant’s Suicide Cortes Fights On Despite Losing Lawsuit What to Know About the Repeal of Net Neutrality Google’s Parent Elevates Attention to Diversity Press and Public Don’t Fully Understand Each Other Oren Dorell, USA Today Reporter,…
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Google Looks to Train More Black Engineers, but Will It Hire Them?
Google created Howard West last year as a three-month residency program for rising junior and senior computer science majors at Howard University. Students attended the program on Google’s Bay Area campus and were taught by senior Google engineers as well as Howard faculty. TechCrunc reports that after the success of the first program, the company…
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According to a Google Glitch, LaVar Ball Founded the NBA
Basketball dad LaVar Ball is living his best 2018, and it’s only two days old. According to Google, he not only parlayed one potential star child and two mediocre talents into an empire but also invented the NBA. Yes, to hear Google tell it, Ball founded the NBA. For most of Tuesday morning, Google listed…
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#Chance2018: Can We Just Impeach Donald Trump and Make Chance the Rapper President Already?
Google has teamed up with Chance the Rapper for a million-dollar campaign to bring computer science education to Chicago schools. USA Today reports that Google.org, the philanthropic division of the company that owns the internet, will donate $1 million to Chance’s* SocialWorks organization to increase the computer skills of kids from all racial, ethnic and…
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Google Gives $1,000,000 Grant to Push the Representation of Black Male Youths in Tech
Google is doling out a cool $1 million grant to an Oakland, Calif.-based organization that is dedicated to increasing representation of black male youths in tech. The Google.org grant is just one of the company’s several attempts to do better when it comes to diversity. The grant will be going to the Hidden Genius Project,…
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