The hiring pathway hasn’t evolved as much as one might think. That's why Google’s announcement of a $100 million training fund to help 20,000 workers is so significant.

Not only is the company betting big on a new kind of training—its own Career Certificates program—but the initiative also involves two partners, Merit America and Year Up, who are among an emerging cadre of nonprofits rethinking how the country recruits and trains workers for the new tech economy. 

Photo: Cornell Watson

Cornell Watson’s photographs are supposed to be hanging right now in a gallery at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. That exhibit, titled “Tarred Healing,” focused on places of importance to the Black community in and around the university.

Instead, the exhibit was canceled. The gallery's decision raises questions about whether university officials sought to censor images depicting the school in an unflattering light, including photographs of the Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure case.