Target backs off of DEI priority

 CNN -  Target recently announced it was ending its pledge to increase its Black workforce by 20% and its executive racial equity committee. Target said it was “further evaluating” corporate partnerships and changing its “supplier diversity” team, focused on bringing in Black-owned and diverse suppliers, to a “supplier engagement” team working more broadly on including small businesses without specific regard to race. Target will also stop participating in external diversity-focused surveys, including one from the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ advocacy group. More