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  • Target CEO Cornell to meet with Sharpton to discuss DEI rollback as civil rights leader considers boycott

    04/17/2025 5:41:43 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 31 replies
    CNBC ^ | April 17, 2025 | by Gabrielle Fonrouge
    KEY POINTS * Target CEO Brian Cornell will meet with civil rights leader the Rev. Al Sharpton to discuss the company’s decision to roll back DEI programs. * The discussion comes as the big box retailer faces calls for a boycott and a slump in foot traffic that began soon after it announced plans to walk away from some DEI initiatives. * Sharpton has not called for a boycott of Target, but said he’ll consider it if the company doesn’t reaffirm its commitment to Black businesses, employees and consumers.
  • Sharpton announces boycott of companies ending DEI

    01/20/2025 11:16:42 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 73 replies
    The Hill ^ | 01/20/2025 | CHEYANNE M. DANIELS
    Rev. Al Sharpton on Monday announced a boycott of companies eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, saying the effort will be in the spirit of the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. Speaking from the Metropolitan AME Church, Sharpton said his organization, the National Action Network, is calling upon all Americans, regardless of their race or gender, to boycott companies that will no longer support DEI. “Why do we have DEI? We have DEI because you denied us diversity, you denied us equity, you denied us inclusion. DEI was a remedy to the racial institutionalized bigotry practice...
  • Sharpton to hold MLK rally on same day as Trump inauguration

    11/13/2024 8:08:24 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 65 replies
    The Hill ^ | 11/13/2024 | Cheyanne M. Daniels
    Rev. Al Sharpton plans to hold a rally in protest of President-elect Trump on inauguration day. Sharpton announced the rally on his MSNBC show, “Politics Nation with Al Sharpton,” on Tuesday. The rally and Trump’s inauguration coincide with Martin Luther King Jr. Day. “While Trump supporters will be on one side of Washington watching him take the oath of office, I will be at the nation’s capital working to keep the dream alive,” Sharpton said. “There has never been a more important time to peacefully organize and mobilize.” Sharpton emphasized that the rally will be nonviolent, “unlike the 2021 insurrection.”...