For many in America, racism is a thing of the past. Everyday they turn on the television and see a black man who, having garnered a wide swath of support, sits in the White House.
Surely, we have come a long way. But even as diversity has reached the highest office of the land, it continues to lack a foothold in many corporate offices.
Cyrus Mehri has dedicated his professional life to changing that. Since 1993 he’s been laboring in the trenches of discrimination law. He’s taken on some of America’s largest companies, challenging the likes of Texaco, Morgan Stanley and Coca-Cola.
Now Mehri has set his sites not on a single firm, but an entire industry that he considers is the most discriminatory. Now, Mehri is out to show advertising agencies that when it comes to talent, they need to start promoting black.
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