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    Code Switch
    Rodney Sampson stated the program Code Start. The program's goal is to train young people who've been labeled as "disconnected youth," and teach them how to be a junior level software engineer or developer.
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    Coding While Black: Hacking The Future Of The Tech Industry

    Jun 04, 2016
    Silicon Valley has a diversity problem, with many tech companies employing a tiny number of African-Americans in key jobs. In Atlanta, black techies are working to diversify the industry's future.
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    Christopher Johnson, left, and Nathaniel Claybrooks unsuccessfully sued "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette" in 2012, claiming the shows kept contestants of color out of starring roles.
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    What Would It Mean To Have A 'Hapa' Bachelorette?

    Mar 13, 2016
    ABC is set to announce a new lead for The Bachelorette Monday night. But would choosing Caila Quinn, who is Asian and white, be a sign of progress in casting diversity or something else?
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    All Tech Considered
    Employees and visitors can leave messages on walls like this on the Facebook campus in Menlo Park, Calif.
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    Zuckerberg Tells Facebook Staff To Stop Crossing Out 'Black Lives Matter'

    Feb 26, 2016
    In a note to employees, Zuckerberg says replacing the slogan on walls on the Facebook campus with "all lives matter" is disrespectful, deeply hurtful and — given his earlier warning — also malicious.
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    The Two-Way
    The world-famous Hollywood sign in the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles.
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    Hollywood Has A Major Diversity Problem, USC Study Finds

    Feb 22, 2016
    The study examined more than 21,000 characters and behind-the-scenes workers on films and TV, and found an "epidemic of invisibility." For example, just 3.4 percent of film directors were female.
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    Technology
    Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during an event at Apple's headquarters Oct. 16, 2014 in Cupertino, California.
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    Confronting Homogeneity In Apple's Boardroom

    Feb 21, 2016
    Antonio Maldonado wants Apple to increase diversity among its senior executives, and he's taking his fight to the shareholders meeting on Feb. 26.
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    The latest Mattel Barbie dolls created to increase representation and diversity.
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    Roundup: Here's What People Are Saying About Barbie's Diversity Makeover

    Feb 05, 2016
    Mattel is rethinking how the Barbie brand could represent women of all colors, shapes and sizes. Some are buying it. Others, not so much.
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    Guests attend the Film Independent Brunch during the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.
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    In The Conversation About Diversity In Hollywood, Where Does Sundance Fit In?

    Feb 03, 2016
    Sundance may be just one part of a much bigger puzzle, but filmmakers of color say it has an important role to play.
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    All Tech Considered
    Intel Chief Diversity Officer Danielle Brown speaks during the Women Who Spark Awards presented by Intel in Las Vegas on Jan. 7.
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    Intel Discloses Diversity Data, Challenges Tech Industry To Follow Suit

    Feb 03, 2016
    Intel is revealing more details about its diversity goals — the ones the chipmaker has met and failed to meet — than any other Silicon Valley giant to date.
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    The Two-Way

    Film Academy Votes To Increase Diversity

    Jan 22, 2016
    Following criticism of the lack of diversity in this year's Oscar nominations, the academy has voted to approve changes aimed at doubling the number of women and people of color by 2020.
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    All Tech Considered
    Jimmy Wales says the Wikipedia community needs more geeks who are not tech geeks.
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    Wikipedia At 15: The Struggle To Attract Non-Techy Geeks

    Jan 15, 2016
    Co-founder Jimmy Wales speaks about Wikipedia's push to diversify the community, its "depressing" progress in growing female membership and advice for news sites' dreadful comments section.
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    Science
    Mike Massimino, pictured here in 2002, was selected for the astronaut corps after applying four times.
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    NASA Is Seeking Astronauts. Do You Have The Right Stuff?

    Dec 16, 2015
    Less than 1 percent of applicants make the cut. But there's more than one way in. Passion helps. Be persistent. Oh, and be tops in what you're doing right now.
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    Clinical Trials Still Don't Reflect The Diversity Of America

    Dec 16, 2015
    Clinical trials are too white, with less than 2 percent of cancer studies including enough minority people to provide information that could be useful for health, a study finds.
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    Should UNLV Cut Cultural Programs When Diversity Worries Are So High?

    Dec 08, 2015

    Awareness of racial discrimination has swept the nation in the last year. There have been shootings, protests and activism at many levels.

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    Around the Nation
    Student protesters staged an Occupy-style protest inside Occidental's Arthur G. Coons Administrative Center for nearly a week.
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    Protesting Racial Bias, Students Trade Placards For Pillows

    Nov 25, 2015
    Inspired by the events at Mizzou, students at Occidental College in Los Angeles recently got administrators to agree to a list of demands and are pledging to hold them accountable.
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    Leslie Miley, former software engineer at Twitter
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    Q&A With The Black Twitter Engineer Who Left Over Diversity Problems

    Nov 06, 2015
    Leslie Miley says the company keeps an internal list of colleges and universities it wants to hire from — Stanford, MIT, Carnegie Mellon — and says messaging like that is part of the problem.
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    Shots - Health News
    African-American patients with chronic kidney disease were half as likely to use an electronic health portal than were non-black patients.
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    Online Health Tools Might Not Help The People Who Need It Most

    Oct 23, 2015
    An online portal to manage chronic kidney disease sounds great, but poor, older or black people were less likely to use it. That means the shift to e-health could make health disparities worse.
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    UNLV Named 2nd-Most Diverse University In National Rankings

    Sep 10, 2015

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — The University of Nevada, Las Vegas is now in a tie for the second-most racially and ethnically diverse campus of its kind in the country.

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    All Tech Considered
    Maxine Williams, director of diversity for Facebook, doesn't want employees to avoid talking about diversity just to be polite. "I want you to see these things as assets," she says.
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    More Than A Pipeline Problem: In Search Of Diversity In Silicon Valley

    Jul 26, 2015
    As the big tech firms grapple with a lack of diversity, three women of color who work in the industry talk about the challenges of expanding staff demographics.
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    All Tech Considered
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    3 Emerging Themes From #RaceOnTech

    Jul 15, 2015
    This week, our #RaceOnTech discussion has turned up some common themes regarding diversity in the science and technology fields: the role of identity, the wealth gap and the importance of mentors.
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    All Tech Considered
    Follow the #RaceOnTech hashtag on Twitter to participate in a conversation about diversity in STEM fields.
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    Follow #RaceOnTech, Explore Diversity In Tech And Science

    Jul 13, 2015
    This week, #RaceOnTech, a discussion on social media and radio, offers a front-row seat into the lives of diverse women and men working inside America's tech and science fields.
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    All Tech Considered

    #RaceOnTech: Sharing The Experiences Of Diverse Innovators

    Jun 05, 2015
    Who are some of the diverse voices emerging in tech and science? This summer, All Tech Considered will lead a storytelling project to engage with innovators who are making an impact.
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    A Manifesto On Diversity In Public Media

    Jun 01, 2015
    The host of the award-winning programs State of the Re:Union and Reveal shares his ideas about making public radio sound more like America.
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    Students walk through a gate on the Harvard University campus. In a recent complaint, dozens of groups have alleged that the school's admissions process holds Asian-American applicants to an unfairly high standard.
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    Behind The Curtain Of College Admissions, Fairness May Not Be Priority No. 1

    May 23, 2015
    A discrimination complaint against Harvard has renewed focus on the fairness of admissions decisions. The process must be rational, says counselor and blogger Jim Jump, but it's not often fair.
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    How Vegas Ate Reno's Lunch

    Jan 26, 2015
    Many states have two major cities. California has Los Angeles and San Francisco. Missouri has St. Louis and Kansas City. Tennessee has Nashville and...
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    KNPR's State of Nevada
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    Las Vegas: Are We a Tolerant City?

    Jul 27, 2012
    Southwestern cities like Phoenix, San Antonio, and Albuquerque are building tolerance programs to combat hate crimes.  But though we're nearby, Las Vegas has had a history of very few hate crimes.
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