Reminder:
Don’t forget to demonstrate our collective economic power with a 24-hour Blackout of our dollars starting at midnight Friday, Feb. 28 until 11:59 p.m.
ACTIONS:
- Do not make any purchases.
- Do not shop online or in stores.
- Do not buy fast food, gasoline, patronize major retailers, use your credit or debit cards for nonessential spending.
- If needed, only buy absolute essentials such as food, medicine and emergency supplies.
If you must spend, only support small, local and Black-owned businesses.
Here is a list of companies that have removed some—or all—references to diversity, equity and inclusion from their public platforms: Accenture, Amazon, Amtrak, Best Buy, Boeing, Chipotle, Citigroup, Comcast, Deloitte, Disney, Ford Motor Company, General Electric Co., General Motors, Google, Harley Davidson, Intel, Jack Daniels, John Deere, Lowe’s, McDonald’s, Meta, Molson Coors, PayPal, Pepsi, PBS, Target, Tesla, The Smithsonian Institution, Walmart and X.
Here are the companies standing by their DEI policies: Apple,Bank of America, Ben & Jerry’s, Cisco, Coca-Cola, Costco, Delta Airlines, Deutsche Bank, e.l.f. Beauty, JPMorgan Chase, Meijer, Nasdaq, NFL, Proctor & Gamble, Salesforce and Sephora.
Deny Economic Investment. Show corporate America what DEI really means.