Atinuke Adediran, ‘Racial Targets’, 118 Northwestern University Law Review 1455 (2024). In the wake of the extrajudicial murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, millions protested across the US and worldwide against the racial and social injustices that persist within society. The 2020 ‘racial reckoning’ protests were the largest racial justice demonstrations in the US since the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and witnessed a broad spectrum of society coming together to demand redress for pervasive inequities across race, gender, and socioeconomic lines. Even companies, that had traditionally preferred to stand on the sidelines with respect to racial justice issues, stepped into the fray, publicly declaring their support for racial justice and promising to do their part to combat racial inequities … (more)
[Gina-Gail Fletcher, JOTWELL, 6 January 2024]
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