BLM one year on: Have corporations stuck to their promises? Race-equality experts give their thoughts on the actions big corporations have taken in the past year TAKING A STAND: Protesters during a Black Lives Matter rally in Hyde Park, London On June 21st last year, at the height of the Black Lives Matter protests, a variety of national and international corporations signed a letter published by The Times pledging “to talk about white privilege”, “racism”, and “the role [they] have played in maintaining this system for so long”. A year on, The Voice spoke to signatories to see whether they’d kept their promises.