AT&T CEO calls for racial justice in America

Randall Stephenson, the chairman and CEO of CNN parent company AT&T, seen here onstage in Burbank, California on October 29, 2019, is calling for real racial equality in the United States after a series of unarmed black Americans killed in the past few months have sparked a national outcry against racial injustice.

Randall Stephenson, the chairman and CEO of CNN parent company AT&T, is calling for real racial equality in the United States after a series of unarmed black Americans killed in the past few months have sparked a national outcry against racial injustice.

"The horrific deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and now Rayshard Brooks provide stark evidence that we have failed in our mandate to establish equal justice for Black Americans," Stephenson wrote in an open letter to federal, state and local officials Tuesday.

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