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Corporate Racial Responsibility, Gina-Gail S. Fletcher, H. Timothy Lovelace Jr.
Corporate Racial Responsibility, Gina-Gail S. Fletcher, H. Timothy Lovelace Jr.
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The 2020 mass protests in response to the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor had a significant impact on American corporations. Several large public companies pledged an estimated $50 billion to advancing racial equity and committed to various initiatives to internally improve diversity, equity, and inclusion. While many applauded corporations’ willingness to engage with racial issues, some considered it further evidence of corporate capitulation to extreme progressivism at shareholders’ expense. Others, while thinking corporate engagement was long overdue, critiqued corporate commitment as insincere.
Drawing on historical evidence surrounding the passage of Title II of the Civil Rights Act of …
Equality Metrics, Veronica Root Martinez, Gina-Gail S. Fletcher
Equality Metrics, Veronica Root Martinez, Gina-Gail S. Fletcher
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This time is different. This time the death of another Black man at the hands of white police officers prompted calls for change not only within police departments, but across all aspects of American life. Those calls for change resulted in significant displays of support for the Black Lives Matter movement and interest in how to eliminate systemic racism and promote racial diversity and justice within one’s daily life and workplace. For the most part, corporations were quick to publicly align themselves with the movement. When carefully examined, however, many of the statements issued by corporations in support of the …