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Pushing Back on Corporations That Fund the RNC
Through a behind-the-scenes conversations and public call-outs, Rashad Robinson, executive director of the civil rights group, Color Of Change, discusses his group's campaign to pressure major corporations to protest Donald Trump by divesting from the Republican National Convention.
"We would make sure that beyond the streamers and the balloons," said Robinson. "That the general public saw that [corporations] were supporting the Confederate flag."