Financial Times (January 14)
“It’s the dawn of a new era of conservatism in corporate America, as executives embrace Trump and the new Republican Washington.” The president-elect “has a history of making personal attacks on companies and executives he doesn’t like.” Amid the rush to get into Trump’s good graces, “companies are reshaping how they interact with society…. It’s a mirror image of the surge in support for social justice causes after a police officer killed George Floyd in 2020.”
Tags: Conservatism, Corporate America, Era, Executives, George Floyd, Personal attacks, Republican, Reshaping, Social justice, Society, Trump
New York Times (May 14)
Nearly three years after George Floyd’s murder prompted many companies to embrace Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (D.E.I.), “some companies are amending their approach to D.E.I., even renaming their departments to include ‘belonging.’ It’s the age of D.E.I.-B.”
Tags: Approach, Belonging, Companies, D.E.I.-B., Diversity, Equity, George Floyd, Inclusion, Murder, U.S.
LA Times (June 8)
“The coronavirus transmission rate in Los Angeles County is climbing again as the economy reopens.” It could go higher still if the protests prove to be incubators. “Officials said the increase in disease transmission largely reflected infections that occurred before the start of demonstrations protesting the death of George Floyd.”
Tags: George Floyd
