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March 31, 2021
A survey by a Silicon Valley advocate for equal treatment of women and minorities found online harassment increased during the…
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September 18, 2018
Google and Howard University are now teaming up to make sure there are more talented Black and Latinx faces in Silicon…
June 7, 2017
At Apple's annual developer conference, Michelle Obama urged the tech industry to keep women and minorities and make real efforts…
May 24, 2017
The tennis star wants to help tech companies diversify their workforces and solve one of the industry's most vexing problems.
March 23, 2017
Google announced a new program partnered with Howard University in an effort to recruit more young minds from Historically Black…
March 14, 2017
Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, is on a tour of America to “get out of my little bubble in…
July 4, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - Google, Facebook and Twitter have released their diversity numbers, and the gap is even wider than originally…
July 3, 2015
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google's new image-recognition program misfired badly this week by identifying two black people as gorillas, delivering…
June 2, 2015
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google isn’t making much headway diversifying its workforce beyond white and Asian men, even though the
October 14, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Top universities in the country turn out a huge number of African-American and Hispanic science, computer engineering…
June 17, 2014
OPINION - When Google released its own dismal diversity numbers last month, they showed what we already knew—that their workforce…
June 2, 2014
OPINION - As Google mentioned, yes, there is a pipeline issue with adding more diversity. However, when will the argument…
March 19, 2014
(AP) - Jackson's strategy borrows from the traditional civil rights era playbook of shaming companies to prod them into transformation...
December 2, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Only time will tell if Kanye West, Damon Dash, Cam'ron, and Nas -- who has claimed on…
November 12, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - African-Americans are not represented in the senior ranks and the executive team, while Latinos are nearly nonexistent…
February 14, 2013
OPINION - Just one percent of all venture-backed startups in Silicon Valley have an African-American founder. We’d like to see…
June 14, 2012
BAY AREA - A Silicon Valley information technology consultant who rigged up his San Jose home with hidden cameras so…
February 8, 2012
theGRIO's 100 - Andrew 'Bo' Young, III is the CEO of Give Locally, a website that pre-screens and posts the…
January 31, 2012
theGRIO's 100 - Anthony Frasier, through determination and hard work, has become a formidable player in the online gaming world…
October 7, 2011
SUNNYVALE, Calif. (AP) - Authorities say Shareef Allman, 47, gunned down his co-workers during a routine safety meeting at Lehigh…