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    Twitch is helping to create an esports league for HBCUs

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    Ann Smajstrla
    Ann Smajstrla
    07.30.2020

    Twitch and Cxmmunity hope to change that with the creation of the HBCU esports league.

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    Google and Howard University partner for more diversity in tech

    by 
    Nathan Ingraham
    Nathan Ingraham
    03.23.2017

    Diversity (or the lack thereof) at Silicon Valley companies like Google has been a hot topic in the tech industry of late -- just about every major tech company out there now is publishing diversity numbers and pledging to make their workforces more than just white men. Google today has just announced a new partnership with Howard University to help improve its own diversity. As Google VP Bonita Stewart (herself a Howard alum) writes, the new "Howard West" program is a residency at Google's Mountain View campus for black computer science majors.