Activists urge continued Target boycott despite national organizers ending protest

MINNEAPOLIS — A national boycott of Target led by civil rights leaders outside Minnesota may be ending — but some local activists say their calls to stop shopping at the Minneapolis-based retailer continue.

“From the beginning, we said the Target boycott would be indefinite,” said civil rights attorney and activist Nekima Levy Armstrong.

For more than a year, Levy Armstrong has led a movement urging consumers to boycott Target after the company quietly scaled back several diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives ahead of President Donald Trump’s return to the White House…

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