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AWS joins Citi Foundation, Comcast NBCUniversal, Guardian Life, Netscout, Vodafone Americas Foundation, Tata Consultancy Services, World Wide Technology, and others in co-founding the program. AWS has appointed its head of global inclusion and DEI LaDavia Drane to the board. This is the second large diversity collaboration that it announced this month, as AWS also joined the Dream Collective to launch SheDares, an interactive learning program for women who want to change careers or return to th...

Asa Mathat for Vox Media This story is part of a group of stories called Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. In the wake of a Recode investigation detailing allegations that Black workers face an unlevel playing field in Amazon’s corporate offices, the company’s future CEO defended Amazon while also acknowledging, “[W]e have a lot of work to do.” In an internal email on Monday addressed to leaders of Amazon’s Black employee affinit...

A wage disparity exists at the highest levels of Amazon, where Black executives make less than their white co-workers doing the same job, according to a new lawsuit. And while the retail giant has cornered the market on delivering goods to at-home shoppers, the company has also revolutionized discrimination in the form of “de-leveling,” a tactic that employs Blacks and Hispanics at a level ...