Why American businesses are committing so many random acts of kindness

More than 180 of the US’s top CEOs made a promise a few weeks ago to no longer solely focus on driving shareholder value. Why? The answer might be: millennials

David Maclean
New York
Saturday 21 September 2019 12:47 BST
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Ben & Jerry’s regularly involves itself in activism via the strange medium of ice cream flavours
Ben & Jerry’s regularly involves itself in activism via the strange medium of ice cream flavours (Ben & Jerry's)

Nothing speaks to me about structural racism quite like a bowl of cinnamon and chocolate ice cream.

Throw in some cinnamon bun dough and spicy fudge brownies, and my mind immediately leaps to the broken criminal legal system which perpetuates such injustice.

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