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1. Civil Rights Leaders Explain the Significance of Corporate Civil Rights Audits
Many large corporations have a team dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion, but civil rights leaders argue these businesses should conduct civil rights audits to keep themselves accountable.
On a webinar presented by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Laura W. Murphy, President of Laura Murphy & Associates, described a civil rights audit as “an analysis conducted by firms with civil rights expertise that assess an organization’s business policies, practices and products to determine whether those components have a discriminatory effect on people who have been historically subjected to inequity and injustice.”
