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• @kyweise Karen Weise on x

  Amazon's 1 yr moratorium on selling facial recognition to police was “great start,” one employee wrote on an internal website, but the company shouldn't build products “perpetuating biases and injustices to black and brown communities.” 4/

• @kyweise Karen Weise on x

  Some retailers made Juneteenth a holiday, & Bezos told staff to cancel their meetings. Amazon's warehouse employees were encouraged to wear black shirts to work. “What does a black shirt do for anybody in terms of social justice?” Adrienne Williams, a contract driver said 5/

• @kyweise Karen Weise on x

  His complaint is part of rising employee pressure within Amazon's ranks to address its own inequities as a company with few black executives that depends on black labor 2/

• @kyweise Karen Weise on x

  Weeks BEFORE George Floyd was killed, a group of corporate employees wrote to Jeff Bezos saying Amazon adopted the entrenched racism that plagued America, as seen in the “homogeneity” of leadership vs “the rich racial and ethic diversity amongst our hourly worker population” 3/

• @teamcoworker @teamcoworker on x

  “Some of Amazon's employees said there was one big problem with [Bezos'] suggestion: For the vast majority of Amazon's Black workers, canceling a meeting is not an option. They work in Amazon's fulfillment operations.” https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @kyweise Karen Weise on x

  For months, Amazon didn't investigate who repeatedly drew racist graffiti in its bathrooms like “N— go back to Africa,” warehouse worker Johnnie Corina said. “To not do any interventions is really not a safe environment for a black person,” he told me. 1/ https://www.nytimes.com/…

• @staceynycdc Stacey E. Singleton on x

  “Amazon stands out bc it has a large percentage of black employees — more than a quarter of its 500K person domestic work force, most of them in hourly jobs at its sprawling logistics operations, where they earn far less than their corporate counterparts.” https://www.nytimes.com…

• @aarti411 Aarti Shahani on x

  Microsoft just made a concrete pledge: double the # of Black managers, senior individual contributors & senior leaders in the U.S. by 2025 Why are so many orgs getting away with window dressing (let's make Juneteenth a holiday) instead of real commitments to redistribute power? h…

• @qmatteoq Matteo Pagani on x

  I'm proud of how Microsoft isn't just giving away money (which is important as well), but effectively working towards a more diverse environment to address the racial injustices https://blogs.microsoft.com/ ...

• @bradsmi Brad Smith on x

  Today, we're sharing additional steps we'll take to help address racial injustice. https://blogs.microsoft.com/ ...

• @lorrainebardeen Lorraine Bardeen on x

  I hope no one is tired of me saying I'm proud of this company? Ok good. I'm proud of this company taking real, meaningful, lasting action to change outcomes for Black men and women who deal with systematic racism every day. https://twitter.com/...

• @sbanjo Shelly Banjo on x

  Spurred by protests and calls to end systemic racism after George Floyd, Google & FB vowed to hire more Black people. If this sounds depressingly familiar, that's because it is. The industry has been making similar pledges for years, with little progress. https://www.bloomberg.co…

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x

  Microsoft's made the most substantial D&I announcements in big tech so far 1. Commitment to grow Black leaders by 100% in 5 years (other techs said 30%) 2. Program to get star mid-level Black employees to director level 3. VP/GM bonuses also depend on D&I https://blogs.microsoft.…

• @fxshaw Frank X. Shaw on x

  This is the email that Satya Nadella sent to employees this morning with steps to help address racial injustice https://blogs.microsoft.com/ ...