Rashad Robinson: I had an outreach from Barack Obama about a year ago. It led to the speech he gave at Stanford, which I was able to help some with. There's simply no way that a multi racial democracy of people who don't have ancestral connections can live and thrive if we can't have an environment where fact and truth has a chance at being heard.
When it comes to racial justice, many companies and organizations haven't matched their reality to their words. Rashad Robinson, the president of Color of Change, the largest online racial justice organization in the U.S., is holding major corporations accountable. Hear Rashad talk through the difficulties of changing systems from Hollywood, Silicon Valley, to Washington DC, getting help from President Barack Obama, and what business leaders can do to actively change racial injustice.
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