Companies like Sephora, PepsiCo and Yelp made promises to invest more in Black businesses and Black employees.
Business is still up, although not quite as much as it was in the six months following George Floyd’s death.
“I want to look at reports and see all of me,” says economist Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe.
Deesha Dyer started a social impact consulting firm during COVID. She hopes companies keep their promises on racial justice.
The University of Miami is moving to address a gap: “We have no Indigenous perspectives on our campus,” one professor said.
Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League, on overhauling policing and how companies are fighting racism.
Data alone will not fix a company’s diversity problem, though.
Reported hate crimes against Asian Americans in 2020 rose almost 150% in 16 of America’s biggest cities, according to an analysis of police data.
The groundbreaking reparations program in Evanston, Illinois, seeks to shrink the racial wealth gap through housing grants.
Billions of dollars were donated to social justice causes in 2020. Deciding where and when to allocate resources can be hard.
