Yusef Jackson, Rev. Jamal Bryant and Rev. Jesse Jackson with demonstrators (Photo Credit: Tacuma Roeback).
At the corner of State and Madison, in the heart of downtown Chicago, demonstrators knelt in prayer before launching into protest. They weren’t just calling out Target. They were calling out corporate America.
Led by Rev. Jamal Harrison Bryant and the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, clergy, community leaders, and activists gathered June 12 and 13 outside Target’s flagship store to demand that the retail giant honor its $2 billion racial equity pledge made after the murder of George Floyd. That commitment, protestors say, has quietly eroded…