Facebook's black employees still only 1.5% of staff despite diversity gains

Social networking company doubled its number of African American employees in 2014 with 36 hires but proportion to total company barely changed

Facebook has almost doubled its number of black employees, but African Americans still represent less than 1.5% of the social networking company's 5,479 US employees, according to a report released on Wednesday.

Mark Zuckerberg's company hired 36 black employees last year out of a total headcount increase of 1,216.