Black CEOs Condemn Voter Curbs, Urge Peers to Fight Back (1)

Dozens of Black executives across the U.S. joined a call for corporations to take more action against voting-rights legislation being advanced by Republicans in at least 43 states that’s seen as an effort to limit participation by ethnic-minority voters.

The open letter led by Kenneth Chenault, a former chief executive officer of American Express Co., and Kenneth Frazier, the CEO of Merck & Co., comes a week after the passage of a Georgia law that activists say will disproportionately hurt the voting rights of African Americans.

Kenneth Chenault

Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

The letter amassed 72 signatures of prominent Black executives, ...