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In June, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian announced he resigned from his company's board to make room for a Black business leader to take his place.

\"I believe resignation can actually be an act of leadership from people in power right now,\" Ohanian wrote on Twitter at the time. \"To everyone fighting to fix our broken nation: do not stop.\"

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