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Is LinkedIn ready for Black LinkedIn?

Marketplace Tech

English - October 13, 2020 09:48 - 10 minutes - 11.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratings
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LinkedIn has a reputation for being all business, but that has been changing recently, especially in the last four months. Workers who are at home and trying to navigate racial upheaval in America are turning to LinkedIn to talk about race and activism, especially as it relates to work. Black workers say it’s great that these conversations are happening on the Microsoft-owned platform because so many executives and company decision-makers are on LinkedIn. Marketplace Tech host Molly Wood speaks with Ashanti Martin who wrote about this for The New York Times.