Delta Air Lines, the last airline still offering empty middle seats to promote social distancing, plans to start selling those seats on flights starting May 1. “With inoculations rising and travelers telling us they’re ready to return to Delta, today we’re making a number of changes to our service to meet our customers’ needs,” Delta CEO Ed Bastian said in a March 31 statement. Other airlines that had also blocked middle seats — Southwest Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Alaska Airlines — have one by one starting offering them for sale again.

General Motors postponed its meeting Thursday between CEO Mary Barra and a group of Black-owned-media leaders. But a spokesperson says the automaker will increase its spending with Black-owned-media groups to 4% of its ad budget in 2022, with a target of 8% by 2025. The automaker says it will hold a series of smaller meetings with the Black-owned media leaders over the next few weeks.The Black media leaders placed a full-page ad in the Detroit Free Press and The Wall Street Journal alleging that GM spends less than .5% of its total advertising budget with Black-owned media. GM disputes that, …