Silicon Valley, one of the country's most diverse melting pots, is inexplicably short on one ingredient: black people. Why?Penny Speight spent much of her childhood trying to find a place to fit in. Raised in her grandmother's home in Stockton, she spent little time outside of school, church and with her family. "I wouldn't say there were a ton of black people," she says of her hometown, "but I was raised by my black family and I was always around them." Her life at home had a soundtrack—grandma approved of Whitney Houston tracks "I Believe in You and Me" and...
