Five major websites often used for wedding planning have pledged to cut back on promoting and romanticizing weddings at former slave plantations. And on Thursday, Zola said it would remove plantations from its venue listings. The developments, a number of which were reported by BuzzFeed News, came in response to a targeted campaign by Color of Change, a racial justice organization. Rashad Robinson , the group’s president, said his team had submitted emails in October requesting a dialogue with five companies. “You have a multi-multimillion-dollar industry that makes money off of glorifying sites of human rights atrocities,” he said in an interview on Wednesday.

Source: New York Times December 05, 2019 17:59 UTC