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...There are the identity issues, driven in large part by the Black Lives Matter movement, which began in 2013 and gained steam following the murder of George Floyd in police custody....
...As sax curls soulfully over lean Larry Goldings’ Fender Rhodes, sparse drums establish a funereal pace and breathy low sax cues soaring vocals....
...The billionaire founder of Oracle, Larry Ellison, has declared his support, having already donated $30mn to a pro-Scott super political action committee....
...He has sought to promote diversity in motor racing and led the sport’s response when police killed George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020....
...We saw a similar gap between words and deeds after the murder of George Floyd in May 2020. Such inconsistency plays directly into the hands of those looking to discredit corporate activism....
...Following the murder of George Floyd last year and the Black Lives Matter protests, several big asset management bosses, including Larry Fink at BlackRock, spoke about the need to address racial injustice...
...The curatorial trio is Magalí Arriola, director of Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; Christina Li, a curator based in Amsterdam and Hong Kong; and Larry Ossei-Mensah, co-founder of the “creative collective” ARTNOIR...
...Larry Fink reflected some of this caution in his 2022 letter to chief executives....
...She detailed her work experiences in an online post last month, then joined with a former colleague to send an open letter to Larry Fink, BlackRock’s chief executive, calling on the asset manager to end...
...But BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink warns that divestiture by individual companies is not an effective way to solve the problem....
...The year is 2020, and we are witnessing protests around the world after the police killing of George Floyd, an unarmed African-American....
...The killing was just hours before the trial of Derek Chauvin, the police officer accused of killing George Floyd, was due to begin its third week....
...“This is not a time to be silent,” said David Solomon, chief executive of Goldman Sachs, as BlackRock’s Larry Fink said it needed to consider where racial disparity existed in its own firm “and not tolerate...
...Even without last week’s guilty verdict for Derek Chauvin, the police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd 11 months ago, the change of president was dramatic....
...He displayed the human touch that has been a hallmark of his career, describing how he spoke to Floyd’s young daughter before the funeral....
...(Vogue) The benevolent rage of Larry Kramer The life of the late obstinate activist and author, who devoted his career to raising awareness of the Aids epidemic, was widely celebrated last week....
...Gris first spoke to Tyler in early May - three weeks before police killed George Floyd - and they talked again just before this episode was published. This is our finale for Season Two!...
...You can come up with a myriad of excuses, but not necessarily solid reasons,” said Larry Morse, co-founder of Fairview Capital, a 26-year-old firm that invests in managers from under-represented backgrounds...
...“I can’t breathe,” Floyd said, as the officer knelt on his neck. When I call Mitchell back this month, he tells me that the weeks since Floyd’s death have been difficult....
...Larry Fink, chief executive of BlackRock, last month promised concrete action over his company’s admitted shortcomings in racial diversity....
...You started with George Floyd. We're talking about voter suppression....
...(FT) Coronavirus digest Larry Kudlow, the White House economic adviser, said the administration opposed extending federal unemployment payments beyond July because the measure created to respond to Covid...
...In January, Larry Fink, chairman and chief executive of BlackRock, announced that corporate responsibility would become a focus of the fund management house....
...In the words of BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink: “Society is increasingly looking to companies, both public and private, to address pressing social and economic issues.”...
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