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Siri is helpful for a lot of things — finding a date night spot, directions, and looking up definitions. But if you wanted to mess with Siri and ask her to define the word ‘bitch,’ you would come across this: The third definition says (Black slang) for a woman. Excuse me? Since when is the word bitch […]

NewsOne’s Top 5 gives you a quick rundown of the viral stories we’re talking about today. White Male Jurors To Weigh Fate Of Cop On Trial For Sexually Assaulting 13 Black Women Google Donates $2.4 Million In Fight Against Racial Injustice  NEWS ROUNDUP: Muhammad Ali’s Former Manager Reveals The Boxer’s Health Is Declining…AND MORE Beauty […]

Google.org's decision comes after the Mountain View, California tech giant announced plans this spring to recruit more women and people of color into one of the best paid growth industries in the nation.

Google Doodle features Chicago civil rights icon Ida B. Wells: http://t.co/SRXM8E618R pic.twitter.com/u4gWxW8N8K — Chicago Sun-Times (@Suntimes) July 16, 2015 Today, Google Doodle celebrates the 135th birthday of Ida B. Wells, the journalist, newspaper editor, and civil rights activist who refused to give up her seat on a train about 70 years before Rosa Parks. The daughter […]

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This past week has been nothing short of amazing for ballet dancer Misty Copeland. She recently made history as the first African-American woman to become a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre and now, the Kansas City-bred ballerina will dance on Broadway. Copeland will join the revival of the classic play On the Town, […]

Amid demands by civil rights leaders and others for employers to improve foundering diversity on Silicon Valley, Facebook has been slow to build a workforce that mirrors its 1.4 billion users around the globe, according to the Guardian. Despite repeated promises by Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chairman and chief executive, to build a less homogenous workforce, […]

If you Google Map “nigga house,” this is what you’ll find. America. pic.twitter.com/YWRO1OiYgc — deray mckesson (@deray) May 19, 2015 Internet juggernaut Google is apologizing after a quick search of a racist term in their maps produced White House results. On Monday, the internet community took to Twitter to express outrage over the findings, prompting […]

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After executives were slammed last year over low diversity numbers, Google is stepping up to help make Silicon Valley less homogenous and spread the wealth in one of the best paid industries in the nation. The Mountain View, California tech giant is trying to draw more women and people of color into the industry with […]

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Where do the most racists live in America? If you’re a person of color, you might say, (clearing throat loudly), everywhere. But a new study shows that most racists tend to congregate in the rural Northeast and South, with a heavy concentration along the spine of the Appalachians running from Georgia up to New York […]

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A former female software engineer is proposing a class-action lawsuit against Twitter, claiming the microblogging service uses a secretive promotion process geared toward men, according to CNET. Tina Huang claims Twitter alerts only certain people about job openings and promotion opportunities, frequently bypassing women, according to Reuters. Via CNET: Huang on Thursday filed her proposed class-action lawsuit […]

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A group of Black state lawmakers is stepping up pressure on Google, Facebook, Twitter and others to diversify their workforces in 2015 through more robust outreach, training and hiring in minority communities. RELATED: Where Are The Black Internet Workers? Civil Rights Bigs Weigh In The National Black Caucus of State Legislators (NBCSL) recently ratified a resolution, “Supporting […]

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Jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics are projected to grow by 17 percent by 2018, compared to 9.8 percent for jobs in other fields, according to estimates from the U.S. Department of Commerce. That’s good and bad news for women and minorities, who are barely represented in one of the nation’s fastest growing job […]