Target is once again under fire — this time not just from consumers but from activists within the Black community.

Target has long championed Black-owned brands with initiatives such as the Target Forward Founders accelerator program, which aims to help brands during the early stages of their business, and its ...

Target continues to look for love in all the wrong places. As the retailer grapples with falling sales, declining foot ...

Two separate leaders of boycotts against Target and its rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, want the donation returned.

Target is ending its guarantee to price match Amazon and Walmart on July 28. A spokesperson for the retailer ...

Target’s new TONE brand with Kai Cenat’s AMP group faces criticism as Black communities boycott the retailer for scaling back ...

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Target never signed the Fifteen Percent Pledge, and instead announced the launch of its own initiative to support Black-owned brands—which could now be part of this rollback.

Building on previous inclusivity efforts, Target in 2022 set a goal of making a financial commitment of more than $2 billion to Black-owned businesses by 2025 and to have more than 500 Black-owned ...

Some activists understood; others pushed the brands to join the protest by cutting ties with Target. “The conversation around Black brands, that they should pull out of the retailers that they’re in, ...

Target’s stance has created a dilemma for brand founders with existing distribution deals. One is Play Pits, a natural deodorant for children that Maryland resident Chantel Powell launched in 2021.