Jesse Jackson Enters Ad Industry Diversity Fray

JESSE JACKSON ENTERS AD INDUSTRY DIVERSITY FRAY
[SOURCE: AdAge, AUTHOR: Laurel Wentz]
Civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson at a Tuesday session of the Association of National Advertisers' Multicultural Marketing Conference said more public hearings on the diversity practices of the advertising industry were being planned in Los Angeles, Chicago and Atlanta. Subpoenas issued in connections with the threat of similar hearings earlier this year in New York forced 11 of Manhattan's largest agencies to sign historic diversity hiring agreements with the New York Commission on Human Rights. Rev. Jackson mentioned the new hearings during a Q&A session following his keynote address at the ANA event and said they would be focused on "advertising industry exclusion policies." He also said there will be a "major workshop on advertising" at the Wall Street Project conference the Rainbow Push Coalition is holding in early January 2007 in New York.
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