He spent the weekend watching the news and scrolling through social media, all the while jumping through different emotions: anger, frustration, hopefulness then despair. In recent years, business leaders have championed bringing one’s whole self to work, calling on their employees to show up authentically. But she takes comfort in the fact that white-owned media outlets are spotlighting black people during this time. Howard has also leveraged her social media platform as means for protest, using it to advocate for white and non-black allyship. “There’s been an awakening in corporate America and this is really an inflection point.”

Source: Forbes June 07, 2020 10:52 UTC