As corporate DEI efforts held up as turning points during 2020's summer of unrest vanish in the face of political pressure, Black community leaders are responding with their wallets. Why it matters: For them,

Though these big-name retailers haven’t removed these products from their shelves, growing calls for boycotts have some small business owners worried.

A group of Black faith leaders have announced a Lent-inspired boycott of retail giant Target over the company’s rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies. Speaking from the historically Black Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington,