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Racism in the workplace is an issue that can affect many industries, and unfortunately it looks like Google techies might not be as forward-thinking in the race relations department as they are when creating innovative products, particularly when it comes to Black women.

A Black Google product manager had to go through a DWB situation after he was stopped by security on the famous tech campus and questioned until he missed his bus. Oh, and they took his badge — all because security didn't believe this Black man was an actual employee.

A Black hair care company owned by two women has raised over a million dollars in funding that was backed by Google. 

It’s still January, but Google got a head start on Black history month this past Sunday. During the Grammy awards they released their Black history month commercial and it has been very well received on social media. The ad names all “the most” searched categories, all of which happen to be Black people. The most […]

A group of 30 states, led by Texas is planning to launch and investigation into Google to see t if they’ve gotten to big and powerful. Some small business owners have complained that Google has such a strong hold on the market, that it’s whatever Google says goes. What do you think?

You may have noticed Tuesday’s Google Doodle, but this doodle is special, for a few reasons. One being that it’s a competition winner. And the other reason is that it’s creator, a Georgia teen, used the illustration to honor her mom. High school senior, Arantza Peña Popo is the winner of the search engine’s annual “Doodle […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon and Google are ending their nearly 2-year spat, agreeing to bring their video streaming apps to each other’s devices. Back in 2017, Google pulled its popular YouTube video app from Amazon’s Fire TV after the online shopping giant refused to sell some Google products. Amazon has since started to sell […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Google is spending more than $1 billion to expand operations in New York City. Ruth Porat, senior vice president and chief financial officer at Google and Alphabet, said in a blog post Monday that Google is creating a more than 1.7 million square-foot campus that includes lease agreements along the Hudson […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google engineers and other company workers around the world walked off the job Thursday to protest the internet company’s lenient treatment of executives accused of sexual misconduct. Employees staged walkouts at offices from Tokyo to Singapore to London. In Dublin, organizers used megaphones to address the crowd of men and women […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google announced that it has fired 48 employees for sexual harassment during the past two years and sent them away without severance packages, hours after a news report that it had protected some male executives facing sexual misconduct allegations and offered them large sums to leave the company. The surprise disclosure […]

Over the past few years, Google’s algorithm has been called out by users and software engineers who find certain elements of the search engine tinged with racism. You may recall back in 2015 how the image recognition algorithms in Google Photos were classifying blacks as “gorillas.” Google said it was “appalled” at the mistake, and […]

The talk show icon is even more successful than she could ever imagine.