Al Sharpton promised a boycott of companies moving away from DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) policies, which has included Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta and Jeff Bezos’s Amazon.
Sharpton first announced the coming boycott while giving a speech for Martin Luther King Jr. Day at the Metropolitan AME Church in Washington DC. He told MSNBC’s Joy Reid later that day that his National Action Network would pick “two or three companies” to focus their boycott efforts on. Companies have been announcing an end to DEI policies since the election of President Donald Trump.
Sharpton said:
I saw Dr. King twice as a kid, but I joined the movement when I was 12 in the north. And what made Dr. King a national figure is what we picked up today at Metropolitan AME, a church that had the funeral of Frederick Douglass and where the body of Rosa Parks was brought. Dr. King called an economic boycott …