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Nike just did it: Juneteenth is now a paid company holiday. The sportswear giant added June 19, the oldest known US celebration of the end of slavery, to its list of annual official days off, CNN Business reported. Twitter, Square and Vox Media also have designated the date as a holiday. Nike announced the decision …
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Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook said on Thursday the iPhone maker will increase spending with black-owned partners in its supply chain and seek to increase minority representation among the firms it does business with. Cook made the remarks in a video posted to Twitter announcing a $100 million racial equity and justice initiative in the …
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Goldman Sachs said on Wednesday it had launched a $10 million fund to support the work of organizations addressing racial injustice, structural inequity and economic disparity. The bank will match employee donations to recipient organizations, it told customers of its online bank, Marcus. An e-mail by a Goldman employee about his experiences of racial injustice …
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Morgan Stanley Chief Executive James Gorman has been so moved by the protests that have gripped New York City that he’s shaking things up at his firm, he said Tuesday. In an internal e-mail shared on LinkedIn, Gorman, 61, wrote that the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police and the ensuing …
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IBM says it is getting out of the facial recognition business over concern about how it can be used for mass surveillance and racial profiling. A letter to US lawmakers Monday from new IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said the tech giant “has sunset its general purpose facial recognition and analysis software products.” Krishna was addressing …
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Oprah Winfrey says that her longtime partner Stedman Graham is one of millions of black Americans who has been racially profiled. During a Facebook conversation with best friend and CBS reporter Gayle King on Sunday, Winfrey, 66, said, “A lot of white people don’t understand what they’re seeing … but when you feel invisible and …
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“9-1-1” actor Oliver Stark attempted to extinguish a behind-the-scenes fire on Sunday, following co-star Ryan Guzman‘s defense of using racial slurs. First, some background: In May, fans of Guzman — who plays firefighter Eddie Diaz on the Fox drama — had uncovered tweets that his fiancée, Brazilian actress and model Chrysti Ane, posted in 2011 …
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Actor John Cho has penned a candid essay about the racial discrimination Asian Americans currently face amid the coronavirus pandemic. In the op-ed, published Wednesday for The Los Angeles Times, the South Korean-born “Harold & Kumar” star confessed that it “felt so strange” for him to warn his parents about leaving their house, worried they …
Nike just did it: Juneteenth is now a paid company holiday. The sportswear giant added June 19, the oldest known US celebration of the end of slavery, to its list of annual official days off, CNN Business reported. Twitter, Square and Vox Media also have designated the date as a holiday. Nike announced the decision …
