Home Depot to face boycott over Georgia voting curbs

Religious leaders in Georgia on Tuesday will call for a boycott of Home Depot because of its silence on the state’s new voting curbs that activists say make it harder for black people and other racial minorities to vote.

Other Georgia-based corporations — including Delta Air Lines and Coca-Cola — have been meeting with the activists for weeks and issued statements opposing the voting restrictions. Coca-Cola also hosted a meeting of several companies on April 13 with the faith leaders, but Home Depot did not attend and has since “ignored a series of follow-up requests, and has failed to speak publicly on the new law,” the activists — led by AME Bishop Reginald Jackson and representing more than 1,000 churches — said in a notice to media on Tuesday.