Rev. Jamal Bryant: Target Is Canceled. Dollar General’s Next

The Target boycott is working — and now Black America must hold Dollar General accountable for failing to invest in the community.

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Rev. Dorothy S. Boulware

On the grounds of local Target stores from Georgia to California, hundreds of people knelt in prayer on May 25, the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s murder . For 9 minutes and 29 seconds — the exact length of time former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck — faith leaders across the nation marked a spiritual and economic line in the sand.

Indeed, these prayer vigils were declarations that the economically exploitative relationship in which the Black Community spent an average of $12 million a day in Target stores is over.

“Who stood with us 10 toes down on Sunday, outside of Target in prayer, asking