How Business Leaders Can Tackle Racism
A GLOBAL RESURGENCE of the Black Lives Matter Movement was sparked on May 25, 2020 after the world witnessed the painfully horrific killing of a Black man, George Floyd, by white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.
The viral video of Mr. Floyd being slowly suffocated by Chauvin’s knee on his neck while Floyd cried out for help was a raw display of anti-Black police violence that shook the world to its core. With this video, the terror of police brutality that Black people have been lamenting, protesting and resisting for decades finally penetrated public consciousness and conversation in a way that galvanized action from hundreds of thousands of citizens, government leaders, socialites and business leaders alike.
The groundswell of public dialogue, action and protests in support of Black lives led, for the first time in living memory, many major U.S. corporations and business leaders to make public statements and corporate commitments to taking specific actions in the spirit of boldly naming and resolutely addressing anti-Black racism within their personal lives, society and their respective organizations, corporations and industries.
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