Ursula Burns: How to fix corporate America's diversity problem
The reaction to the killing of George Floyd has refocused the spotlight on the structural racism in American society. Someone who knows about persevering in the face of difficult odds is Ursula Burns. She was an engineering intern at Xerox and rose to become CEO of the company and one of the most powerful businesswomen in the world. She is now a founding member of Change the Equation, a program to boost STEM education and member of the Uber board of directors. She's been telling Newshour's Razia Iqbal about her reflections on the protest marches and the response from the authorities...
(Photo: Ursula Burns at the New Work Summit, 2016. Credit: Getty Images)
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