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Four dozen of the nation's top companies have joined together to fight the eco- nomic imbalance Black peo- ple face in this country.
Companies like Target, Nike, Delta, Allstate, and AT&T have formed a group called OneTen and have vowed to hire and invest in 1 million Black Americans over the next ten years.
The OneTen website de- scribes the effort as "chang- ing the way we do business so we can cultivate a thriving, equitable society" through "a coalition of leading compa- nies taking measurable ac- tion that creates immeasurable possibilities for generations to come."
The coalition is led by co- founders Ken Frazier,
Electoral College Affirms Joe Biden's Victory
37 Top Companies Vow To Hire 1 Million Black Professionals!
As the Electoral College vote concluded, President- elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. criticized President Trump and his allies for subjecting elections officials to threats and abuse. “The integrity of our elections remains intact,” he said in a speech.
JOE BIDEN
Kelly Loeffler-Chester Doles
chairman and CEO of Merck, and Ginni Rometty, execu- tive chairperson of IBM. This organization is not only seek- ing Black talent to hire, but they are also calling on talent providers and other major companies to join their ef-
forts.
Determined to cultivate "a
comprehensive system that focuses on skills-first and en- ables greater opportunities for earned success," OneTen is set to benefit Black profes- sionals nationwide.
In a page seemingly taken right out of Donald Trump‘s white supremacist campaign playbook, a photo showing Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler smiling alongside a former Ku Klux Klan leader with a brutally racist history has gone viral this weekend. Chester Doles apparently posted the photo on his Facebook after the two of them posed while smiling at an event on Friday.
A pro-Jewish organization first brought attention to the photo. The group described Doles in part as someone who “nearly beat a Black man to death.”
The photo surfaced nearly three weeks before the in- cumbent Loeffler is sched- uled to square off against the Rev. Raphael Warnock in a run-off election for her U. S. Senate seat. Warnock is African American.
Doles notably pleaded guilty to a hate crime in 1993 for brutally beating a Black
CHESTER DOLES AND KELLY LOEFFLER
man in Maryland because he was riding in a vehicle with a white woman. The Baltimore Sun reported at the time that “Doles’ agreement to testify in the beating case angered fellow Klansmen, including Robert Tweed, who calls himself the imperial wizard for the Territorial Klans of America.”
The photo was also likely highly offensive to Jon Os- soff, the Democrat running in Georgia’s other Senate run-off election. Ossoff, who is facing incumbent Republi- can Sen. David Perdue, is Jewish.
KKK Leader Photo Goes Viral,
Runoff Race Looms
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