This year's Met Gala focused on Black dandyism, tailoring and style. It was the first Gala to focus exclusively on Black designers, and the first in more than 20 years to have a menswear theme. (May 6 ...

Target's chief executive officer has met with the Rev. Al Sharpton, whose civil rights organization has encouraged consumers to avoid U.S. retailers that scaled backed their diversity, equity and incl ...

Target CEO Brian Cornell will meet with the Rev. Al Sharpton as the company contends with a slump in foot traffic after walking back some DEI initiatives.

PepsiCo leaders agreed to meet with National Action Network leaders to discuss DEI rollbacks amid Sharpton's threat to boycott the company Civil rights advocates of Al Sharpton’s National Action ...

Activists in Minnesota launched a boycott campaign shortly after. Al Sharpton at Harlem Costco – screenshot Though not involved in the original boycott, Sharpton voiced support for those efforts ...

Leaders at PepsiCo have agreed to meet this week with civil rights advocates from the National Action Network to discuss the company's recent decision to roll back some of its diversity, equity, and ...

This year's Met Gala theme features Black dandyism, the subversive and sharp looks of Black menswear that has its roots in the Atlantic diaspora. Historian Shelby Ivey Christie joins Rev. Al Sharpton ...

Target CEO Brian Cornell is set to meet civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton this week in New York ... Christopher Sadowski In contrast, Costco notably maintained its DEI initiatives, resisting ...

In a fiery address that concluded the 2025 National Action Network (NAN) Annual Convention, civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton called ... He pointed to Costco as an example, praising the ...

‘We’re going shopping at Costco because they’ve stood with us, “he said. “People that stand with us, we will stand with them,” Sharpton was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1954 to parents Al ...

In January, Sharpton led a “buy-cott” at Costco, encouraging Americans to vote with their dollars and shop at the retail giant for its commitment to DEI policies, even as many of its ...