Consumers who want to boycott Target should instead spend their dollars on products from Black-owned businesses at the retailer, said April Showers, founder and chief executive of toy, apparel and home goods brand Afro Unicorn, which has been sold at Target since 2022.
Target’s rollback on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives is raising questions about the retail giant’s philanthropic commitment to fighting racial disparities and promoting progressive values in liberal Minneapolis,
Anger at Target surged after it abandoned DEI programs, but Black-owned businesses that struggled to earn shelf space urged critics to focus on buying minority-owned companies' products instead.
Target is the latest US company to retreat from policies designed to enhance racial and ethnic representation in the workplace.
Target is ending its DEI program this year, the latest corporation to step away from such policies in the face of scrutiny from conservative groups.
The group’s decision is a response to the retailer’s plans to roll back diversity and inclusion initiatives, Executive Director Andi Otto said Sunday.
Target gave local filmmaker Leonard Searcy a $35,000 grant in October. Searcy was set to meet with the Minneapolis-based retail giant again Thursday to talk about another grant. The company postponed the meeting indefinitely,
At a Thursday morning press conference, some Minnesotans were cutting up Target Red Cards, after the company cut out diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is set to cut its main policy rate on Feb. 7 followed by just one more cut next quarter, according to economists polled by Reuters, who have kept their views largely unchanged from a month ago.
Goldman Sachs analyst Michael Ng revised the price target on Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSA) shares, reducing it from $50.00 to $44.00, while still recommending the stock as a Buy. With a market capitalization of $126 billion and trading near its 52-week low,