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Julie Sullivan's debut novel, "The World is Full of Champions," takes a critical look at the chasm that exists between a fictional family from the Black elite in Philadelphia and
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Sullivan, the daughter of Philadelphia icon Rev. Leon H. Sullivan, grew up in two worlds: The suburbs and North Philadelphia. Her new novel examines the tensions between the two.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, college students across the country protested and demanded their colleges divest from companies that were doing business with South Africa due to ongoing apartheid. This concern led to the creation of the Sullivan Principles, which were aimed at governing American companies’ investments and operations in South Africa. Named for Reverend...
Today, the first Black corporate director Rev. Leon Sullivan's legacy remains a model for Black activism in corporate governance.
(Archived document, may contain errors) 30 September 12, 1984 FOR U.S. FIRMS IN SOUTH AFRICA, THE THREAT OF COERCIVE SULLIVAN PRINCIPLES INTRODUCTION "I'm not here to keep American companies in South Africa." -- The Reverend Leon Sullivan' A voluntary code of corporate conduct for American firms with South African investments has turned into a bureaucratic quagmire and created a controversial backlash with major foreign and domestic policy implications.