Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
From WaPo
In the early ‘70s, in the shadow of the civil rights era, Kenneth Chenault often stayed up late talking with other Black students at Bowdoin College in Maine about how to fight for racial equality. Most argued you needed to push from the outside. They wanted to become activists and educators. Chenault was different. He thought it was best to work from inside the corridors of power, recalled former classmate Geoffrey Canada.
“We didn’t think you could knock those doors down,” Canada said.
Chenault did. He went on to run American Express for 17 years, one of just 19 Black chief executives ever at a Fortune 500 company.
Chenault recently used that same formula of fighting for change when he and another Black chief executive, Kenneth Frazier of the pharmaceutical giant Merck, helped push much of corporate America to publicly oppose the restrictive voting rights bills being considered in dozens of states.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/05/04/corporate-america-voting-rights/
The two became friends while attending Harvard Law
Comments
Wonder why that is. NOT.
by artappraiser on Wed, 05/05/2021 - 12:22pm
From Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/restrictive-voting-laws-companies-ceos-ad-organized-by-black-executives-2021-4
by rmrd0000 on Wed, 05/05/2021 - 1:09pm
a reminder, though, that The Woke want people like the two Ken's and their white overlords to stay out of NYC:
Oh I have no doubt that they would also like to abolish American Express
by artappraiser on Wed, 05/05/2021 - 1:43pm
Your post has nothing to do with voter suppression being challenged by Black CEOs.
by rmrd0000 on Wed, 05/05/2021 - 4:46pm
He has a point. Maybe let it rest?
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 05/05/2021 - 5:08pm