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Salesforce has trained almost 7,000 racial equality allies and overhauled recruitment practices as part of its ongoing efforts to address historic imbalances.
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As noted in previous articles in this ongoing series to mark Black History Month, the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor saw the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement gain huge momentum in 2020. The start of 2021 has been seen by some as another seminal moment in the fight for racial equality as the US swore in a new President with a stated aim to shift away from the divisive politics of his predecessor – one of the first Executive Orders Joe Biden signed was to advance the cause of racial equity.