Sure, Jan: Target CEO Assures Al Sharpton Company Will Complete $2B Investment Into Black Businesses By July, Jamal Bryant & Others Unmoved
Last week, Target CEO Brian Cornell requested a meeting with Rev. Al Sharpton, presumably hoping to mitigate the massive fallout from Target's decision to roll back its DEI initiatives, including a three-year program that focused on building Black careers with a $2 billion investment. According to The Minnesota Star Tribune, that meeting took place Thursday in New York, and Sharpton characterized it as "very constructive and candid," but other activists are calling BS on that claim, suggesting that the whole thing was performative nonsense inspired by 10 consecutive weeks of reduced . . .