Airbnb Campaigns to Increase Diversity on Its Platform

By Freddie Allen Wire Service Correspondent
(NNPA) – Airbnb, the housing marketplace that connects travelers with hosts in 65,000 cities and 191 countries worldwide, is now on a mission to increase awareness about the company’s economic benefits in communities of color.
It’s part of an ongoing effort to increase diversity and eliminate discrimination on the platform that launched during the Great Recession.
In 2015, the company came under fire when Harvard researchers repo