How two Black CEOs got corporate America to pay attention to voting rights

Chenault, 69, was at home in New York when he heard about Georgia’s voting law, according to people familiar with events who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private matters. It imposed new ID requirements for mail ballots and other limits, such as a ban on distributing food and water to people in line to vote. Republican Gov. Brian Kemp had signed the bill into law days earlier, at the end of March.