Atlanta area pastor leading a boycott of Target over the company’s scuttling of its diversity, equity and inclusion programs says the campaign will continue under the new chief executive officer.

Target announced this week its current CEO, Brian Cornell, will step down early next year and will transition to Executive Chair of the Board of Directors. While the Board unanimously elected Target’s current Chief Operating Officer Michael Fiddelke to succeed Cornell.

Activist, author and former political candidate Jamal Bryant, the head of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in DeKalb County, GA, and leader of a Target boycott campaign says the change in leadership doesn’t matter. The boycott will continue.

“I think we’re looking at the moving of peanut shells in Central Park,” Bryant said du

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