Intel's CEO admitted the company had some internal resistance to his diversity goals, while Jesse Jackson wants to push for Silicon Valley diversity beyond just technology training and hiring.
This year at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Intel made a historic pledge to reach full representation of minorities in its company in the next five years, better known as #Parity2020.
After spending nearly 18 months behind bars, former congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. is set to be released Thursday from federal prison and transferred to a Washington, D.C., halfway house where he will serve the rest of his prison sentence.
This year we've learned a lot about the tech industry's employee diversity, or lack thereof. Now, a new survey by the Rev. Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH Coalition reports that at the top levels of Silicon Valley companies, even fewer minorities can be found than elsewhere.
Amazon's diversity statistics are predictably similar to the rest of Silicon Valley, but Amazon stands out from the rest in what it didn't disclose. Meanwhile, Jesse Jackson has called for more egalitarianism from the tech industry.
Jesse Jackson continued his push for diversity in Silicon Valley this week, calling a more representative workforce in the country's high tech industry the next step for civil rights.
Continuing with the backlash against Phil Robertson of A&E's "Duck Dynasty," the Rev. Jesse Jackson has issued a statement saying that the Robertson family patriarch is "worse than Rosa Parks' driver" when it comes to civil rights.
