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The ad industry is abuzz over a cover letter posted on Facebook this week that opens with a line sure to make any talent scout do a double take: “Your Agency Hates Black Women.”
Aspiring junior copywriter and recent Fashion Institute of Technology graduate Alysia Lewis shared the post in a Facebook job group. She followed her remarkable opening salvo by using the recent Pepsi Kendall Jenner controversy as a symbol of the ad industry’s seeming inability to avoid shooting itself in the foot.
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