Tech Companies Are Quietly Defunding Diversity Pledges And Industry Layoffs Are Hitting Black And Brown Workers Hardest—Experts Say The Message Is Clear
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Two and a half years ago, George Floyd was murdered at a Minneapolis intersection after a white police officer kneeled on his neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. Three months prior, 26-year-old Breonna Taylor was killed as she slept, shot by Kentucky police who ambushed her home. One month before that, high school football star Ahmaud Arbery was gunned down by two white men as he jogged through his Georgia neighborhood. By the summer of 2020, long-festering racial tensions reached a boiling point forcing America to confront its legacy of violence and discrimination against African Americans.