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07 Aug NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE’S ANNUAL CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS COMCAST’S LEADERSHIP IN DIVERSITY

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By Charisse Lillie, Vice President, Community Investment, Comcast Corporation, and President, Comcast Foundation in Diversity The issue of increasing diversity in the tech arena has garnered a lot of attention lately and is an area in which we have been fully engaged for the past five years. If we are going to be successful in closing racial disparities in the Tech Sector, it will take real and sustained partnerships in minority communities throughout the United States. At Comcast NBCUniversal, we have worked hard to create many such partnerships, including a significant partnership with the National Urban League (NUL), which held its Annual Conference in Florida last week.

07 Aug Tech Data GC: Diversity Critical to Problem Solving

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In March, wholesale IT distributor Tech Data joined 378 other companies and signed on to an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to harmonize discrepant state laws and rule in favor of same sex marriage.

06 Aug Silicon Valley struggles to hack its diversity problem

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Yahoo disclosed this month that African-Americans made up just 2 percent of its workers, while Hispanics stood at 4 percent. Those revelations came days after Facebook reported it had employed just 81 blacks among its 5,500 U.S. workers.

05 Aug National Urban League hackathon: ‘We’re going to do this every year. We’re going to make it bigger and better’

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Hosted by the National Urban League in partnership with Digital Grass, the two-day “TechConnect: Hack-A-Thon for Social Justice,” presented by Comcast NBCUniversal, was held on July 30-31, 2015 in Fort Lauderdale. On Day 1, team formation and concept introductions were made following motivational words from Stonly Baptiste of Urban.us and CodeFever's Felecia Hatcher. Following a full day of coaching, brainstorming and designing, Day 2 ended with 7 young, energetic and tech-savvy teams taking the stage to the to share their tech solutions to improve civic innovation and quality of life for the core urban community.

05 Aug PINTEREST ANNOUNCES NEW PLAN TO BOOST DIVERSITY IN TECH

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Everyone’s favorite food, fashion and home decor pinning platform, Pinterest, is taking internal steps to be just as diverse as its users. Hoping to increase diversity in the technology industry overall, Pinterest announced on Thursday its goal to hire more women and minorities, and its’ making those goals public to help hold itself accountable.

05 Aug Report: Most Common Diversity Practice Targets Underserved Students to Apply

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The topic of how to achieve diversity in higher education is evergreen. Sometime during its 2015-2016 term the Supreme Court will be revisiting the Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin case, in which a white woman accused the school of discriminating against her on the basis of her race. (An earlier iteration of the case decided in 2013 involved two women, one of whom has since withdrawn from the suit.)