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American Airlines Makes Anti-Racism Training Mandatory After NAACP Issues Travel Advisory
After a series of highly publicized racial incidents with American Airlines or its employees, the company recently announced that it will be instituting mandatory implicit-bias training for the company in 2018. “We are proud of the diversity and inclusion initiatives already in place at American, but we know we can do even better. So we…
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#FlyingWhileBlack: NAACP Issues Travel Warning for Black People Flying American Airlines
The NAACP issued an alert Tuesday warning black travelers to use caution if they decide to fly with American Airlines because of what the organization described as a “pattern of disturbing incidents reported by African-American passengers” over a period of several months. According to SFGate, the travel advisory described one incident in which a black…
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