Apple has added a new page to its website detailing its Racial Equity and Justice Initiative efforts, and has opened up applications to its Impact Accelerator program to Black- and Brown-owned businesses.
In an update to its website, Apple has introduced a page about the Racial Equity and Justice Initiative, detailing its $100 million effort to dismantle systemic racism and grow opportunities for people confronting it every day. The page includes explanations for areas the initiative will focus on, including education, criminal justice reform, and economic equality.
The education-led elements include the Community Education Initiative, the learning hub at the Propel Center, the Apple Developer Academy covering Detroit, and supporting minority-serving institutions. Its criminal justice reform work includes donations to organizations such as the Equal Justice Initiative, which has worked since 1989 to defend basic human rights.
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We continue to be reminded that certain uncomfortable truths about our society are ignored, silenced, and sidelined. Comfort can no longer come at the expense of change for communities of color.
As global leaders in technology and business, we have an urgent responsibility to dismantle systemic racism and grow opportunities for people confronting it every day.
Our Racial Equity and Justice Initiative (REJI) is a long-term effort to help ensure more positive outcomes for communities of color, particularly for the Black community. We’re beginning with a $100 million commitment. And our commitment will endure until there is enduring change.
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Every new Apple release that’s coming in February 2021
It s a short month but Apple has a lot going on. Credit: Apple/IDG
Apple started 2021 the way it finished 2020: with a bang. While we haven’t gotten any hardware releases in 2021 yet, Apple had a fantastic start to the year, announcing a record-breaking quarter with a whopping $111 billion dollars in revenue on the backs of double-digit growth in every product category. It also outlined the ways it would be using its $100 million Racial Equity and Justice Initiative, including the building of the Propel Center, “a “first-of-its-kind global innovation and learning hub,” in Atlanta.
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Kicking off a short series on the state of Black representation in the tech sector, an update on how some firms are trying to address long-standing inequalities and encourage change.
Today marks the start of Black History Month in the US, an occasion that Apple has chosen to mark with the launch of a limited edition Black Unity watch, so that anyone with $399 to spare can show their solidarity.
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Black History Month, or African American History Month, is celebrated each year during February to highlight the contributions and achievements of African-American individuals and communities, as well as the struggles for freedom and equality in the United States.
Apple has revealed just how much money we ve paid it, plus it s been in a spat with Facebook, and it s stepping up its fitness workouts.
This is a review of January 2021, but just take a step back to the same time in 2019 for a moment. Then the headline news was that Apple sales were down, and worries about China were up.
That would be back in the days before the coronavirus, so the China worries at the time were all about Apple s falling fortunes there.
Skip forward to January 2021, and after the most tumultuous of years, things are looking almost entirely the opposite for Apple. The company broke $100 billion in a single quarter for the first time, and a significant part of that was down to China.