Twin Cities-based retailer Best Buy is running discriminatory professional development programs that are open to non-white employees only, according to reports.
A whistleblower shared screenshots of an internal company memo on the programs with O’Keefe Media Group, the group reported on Twitter.
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Both Target and Best Buy have announced plans to make Juneteenth a company-wide holiday, an idea that Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) wants to institute on the federal level.
“One of the most defining days in our nation’s history was when President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, finally freeing all slaves in Confederate territory. But slaves in Texas wouldn’t learn this life-altering news for two and a half years,” Cornyn said during a Senate floor speech Thursday.
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