More than a year into a nationwide boycott that decimated Target’s revenue, members of the “Mothership Three” made an announcement that has raised questions about the status of a movement to hold Target accountable for its capitulation to the Trump administration.
Though the Rev. Jamal Bryant has ended his “Target Fast,” his fellow Mothership members Tamika D. Mallory and former Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner are still locked in on those who’ve sworn off the red bull’s-eye. D.C.-based boycott organizers, who’ve paused their weekly pickets for the time being, are also planning a pivot that places them more in solidarity with the Black and brown entrepreneurs posted outside DC USA, the location of the District’s largest Target retailer.
“What we want to do is create space for those vendors to be able to have all that they need, and we will be redirecting people to them,” said the Rev. Patricia Hailes Fears, lead pastor of Fellowship Baptist Church in Northwest. “The vendors are ready to receive us. It’s been a year, and when we started out, it wasn’t so friendly, but they’ve gotten us together.”…