‘Corporate America Has Failed Black America’

The New York Times (NYT) (06/06/2020)
  • 0 – Black Senior Leadership at Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Bank of America, JP Morgan and Wells Fargo.
  • 4 – The # of black CEOs among America’s 500 largest corporations.
  • Systemic – Following the killing of George Floyd, more black executives are voicing their frustration at being tokens atop Corporate America.
  • Powerless – Most black corporate leaders have limited power to effect change.
  • Performative – Many view recent statements by their companies in support of racial equality as “hollow, undermined by their own actions”.