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Article: Sharpton & Sheffield: American Honda Must Address Diversity Issues Such as Lack of African Americans in Top Management and Failure to Do More Business With African American Vendors & Alliance w/XM Satellite Radio.
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- April 23, 2003
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DETROIT -- DETROIT, April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- American Honda needs to review its relationship with African Americans and African American vendors and suppliers that could conduct business with American Honda. To address those concerns, Reverend Al Sharpton, the founder of the National Action Network (NAN) and Reverend Horace Sheffield III, the CEO of the National Association of Black Organizations (NABO) and president of the Michigan chapter of NAN have asked for a meeting with Koishi Amemiya, President, American Honda Motor Company.
In a letter to American Honda, Sheffield notes the 700 billion dollar annual buying power of Black America and requests a meeting to ...