Exploring the pushback in renaming schools after Confederate leaders amidst America's racial reckoning, with reflections on historical context and sponsor highlights from Shopify and Quince, as well as a tool for privacy protection. The chapter delves into brands' incorporation of racial justice themes in advertising in 2020 and corporate investments in racial equity causes, expanding to discuss other brand activism causes.
The murder of George Floyd and the protests that followed looked like a turning point in the fight against systemic racism. Except, as Vox’s Fabiola Cineas explains, it wasn’t.
This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by David Herman and Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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