Target Looks for Love in All the Wrong Places as Black Leaders Reject Corporate Spin

Target Looks for Love in All the Wrong Places as Black Leaders Reject Corporate Spin

By Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent Target continues to look for love in all the wrong places. As the retailer grapples with falling sales, declining foot traffic, and an escalating boycott, it has poured resources into celebrity deals and high-profile partnerships without directly addressing the harm Black communities say it caused. Target has also conspicuously failed to engage Black-owned media outlets, bypassing t…

Target Donates $300K To Black Church Group, Activists Want It Returned

Source: (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images) / (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images) In what several activists and spiritual leaders view as an underhanded effort to court Black dollars, Target donated $300,000 to the National Baptist Convention amidst several ongoing Target boycotts nationwide.  According to USA Today, both Rev. Jamal Bryant and activist Nekima Levy Armstrong say the church group accepting the donation does a disservice to the…

BLK ALERTS - Target Donates $300K To Black Church Group, Activists Want It Returned

Source: (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images) / (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images) In what several activists and spiritual leaders view as an underhanded effort to court Black dollars, Target donated $300,000 to the National Baptist Convention amidst several ongoing Target boycotts nationwide.  According to USA Today, both Rev. Jamal Bryant and activist Nekima Levy Armstrong say the church group accepting the donation does a disservice to the…