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Dr. Bernice King on why companies that walked back DEI were never truly committed: 'If you retreat that quick…that reveals who you really are'

Dr. Bernice A. King (Credit: Rebecca Greenfield/Fortune)

In the aftermath of the 2020 murder of George Floyd, corporate America faced a racial reckoning. Companies across industries reacted by publicly pledging to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion, launching new task forces, creating new roles, and promising to build workplaces that better reflected the countries they served.

But in recent months, as political pressure against DEI has intensified, many organizations have quietly scaled back or abandoned those commitments.

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