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Georgia corporate CEOs, faith leaders to discuss voting rights challenges By FOX 5 Atlanta Digital Team Published  The impact the boycotts over Georgia's new election reform law has been having. ATLANTA - Less than a week after religious leaders in Georgia announced they would postpone boycotts of major Georgia companies that failed to challenge new election laws in the state, CEOs of Georgia's biggest companies will meet with those leaders for a digital "summit." A joint statement said Georgia's AME Bishop Reginald Jackson and James Quincey, Chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola, will lead a cl...

By Victor Omondi An association of religious leaders who’d been calling for a boycott on some big Georgia-based businesses that didn’t vividly oppose the state’s new election law has since rescheduled the plan. On Tuesday, AME Sixth Episcopal District bishop Reginald Jackson announced that they’ve rescheduled the boycott on Georgia-based products until after a virtual meeting with the executives next week. “Hopefully, we won’t have to give the signal, we want these companies to speak out publicly against this legislation, to use their lobbying resources to fight voting restriction...

Faith leaders in Atlanta say they have postponed a planned boycott of several major Georgia-based companies, pending a meeting next week with corporate heads to discuss their response to the state’s new voting laws. The Republican-backed laws have come under fierce criticism for adding restrictions and removing power from the secretary of state. Bishop Reginald Jackson of Georgia’s AME church writes in a statement that the chairman of Coca-Cola is helping to arrange a meeting with several corporate executives, including those from Delta, The Home Depot, Southern Company and UPS, among...

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On March 11, Delta Air Lines dedicated a building at its Atlanta headquarters to Andrew Young, the civil rights leader and former mayor. At the ceremony, Young spoke of the restrictive voting rights bill that Republicans were rushing through the Georgia state Legislature. Then, after the speeches, Young’s daughter, Andrea, a prominent activist herself, cornered Delta’s CEO, Ed Bastian. “I told him how important it was to oppose this law,” she said. For Bastian, it was an early warning that the issue of voting rights might soon ensnare Delta in another national dispute. Over the past f...