It was envisioned as a bridge to connect Historically Black Colleges and Universities with the Big Tech enclave of Silicon Valley. When Google executives announced Howard West in 2017, it was advertised as a collaboration with Howard University to recruit Black computer science majors from the Washington, D.C., campus. The initiative quickly expanded to include other … Continue reading Black Students In Google Training Program Say They Learned a Lot, But Tech Giant Left Some Expectations Unmet giving them false hope.