Price matching is back.
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The department store needs to improve its performance.
Road to recovery?
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The company has returned to profit by making cuts, but there are things it could do to reinvent itself.
Actor Zawe Ashton is one of the celebrities fronting M&S’s Christmas campaigns for 2023.
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The excesses Christmas promotes are still underpinned by the idea that generosity, compassion and empathy are values that matter.
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Children may struggle to recall basic words in their first language within a couple of months of stopping using it.
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Companies need to show that they are socially aware.
Christmas at a John Lewis store.
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Underneath the schmaltzy appeal of the 2022 John Lewis Christmas advert is a frustrating distraction from the far from picture-perfect reality for children in care.
Highlander founder Myles Horton (right) with civil rights leader Rosa Parks and labor leader Ralph Helstein in 1957.
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The training center, which welcomed Rosa Parks and John Lewis before they became famous, still empowers and inspires marginalized Americans to use their own voices and talents.
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Well known retailers are too often stifled by risk averse corporate culture.
Debenhams’ 242-year history is being reduced to a brand.
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This doesn’t have to be the end for empty retail space.
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Small-scale stores and flexibility could be key to future shopping habits.
In Atlanta, people gather to dance and celebrate the election of Joe Biden as the next president.
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A set of efforts that registered 800,000 new voters since 2018 may have been the key to Georgia turning blue in a presidential election for the first time since 1992.
Rep. John Lewis attends church services at Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma.
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A professor of homiletics explores the different personas Black preachers wear in the public sphere and how this has often been misunderstood.
John Lewis, right, marched with Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to fight for equality.
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Though he had a speech impediment and came from humble beginnings, John Lewis went on to become a giant of the civil rights movement.
John Lewis, in the foreground, is beaten by a state trooper during a civil rights voting march in Selma, Ala., on March 7, 1965.
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Thanks to some serendipity and fortuitous timing, the images emerging out of Selma had a uniquely powerful effect on the nation.
John Lewis linked arms with religious leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King, while marching from Selma to Montgomery in 1965.
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From the earliest days of the civil rights struggle, Black religious leaders have infused the fight for justice with spirituality. Rep. Lewis and Rev. Vivian are no exception.
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II speaks outside of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Lafayette Square on June 14, 2020.
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From the earliest days of the anti-slavery movement, Black religious leaders have infused the fight for civil rights with spirituality.
A protester raises a fist in New York’s Washington Square Park during a June 2, 2020 demonstration.
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Sweeping changes were possible in the past because black leaders were willing to risk their lives and call out problems before they became crises.
The shop drop.
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Now in its tenth year in the UK, the great American post-Thanksgiving bonanza is starting to look like a turkey.
Famous dome in Galeries Lafayette, Paris.
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Glance at House of Fraser, John Lewis et al and you might think it’s time to give up the ghost.
Battling the discounters with Sushi bars.
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The upmarket store is reining in expansion but doubling down on value-added for its core clients.