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Philadelphia Police Department Changes Trespassing Policy After Starbucks Incident
The Philadelphia Police Department announced that it will change the way officers handle trespassing calls after a debacle in which two men were arrested in a Center City Starbucks café for possession of blackness with intent to exist. In April, Starbucks employee Holly Hilton alerted police officers to the presence of Rashon Nelson and Donte…
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Mellody Hobson Will Become Starbucks’ No. 2 When Howard Schultz Steps Down
Well, looks like Starbucks is doing quite a bit more than Race Relations 101 for its employees after that Philadelphia debacle in April; the chain is actually placing a black woman in its leadership ranks. Mellody Hobson, currently president of Ariel Investments, which manages over $13 billion in assets, will become vice chair at Starbucks…
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Was the Starbucks Anti-Bias Training a Fail or Nah?
On Tuesday, Starbucks closed 8,000 of its locations for anti-bias training. The training is a response to the nationwide uproar following an incident at a Philadelphia Starbucks, in which an employee called the police on two black men for allegedly loitering. But was the training a fail or nah? “You can’t fix racial inequality, 400-plus…
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8,000 Starbucks Stores Shut Down Today for 4-Hour Nap … I Mean Anti-Bias Training
Some may say it’s too little, too latte, as 8,000 Starbucks prepare to shut down Tuesday for anti-bias training. About 175,000 Starbucks employees will attend the anti-bias training on the heels of the coffee chain facing backlash after two black men were arrested for sitting in a store without ordering right away. But what will…
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Starbucks Announces New Policy: Sit All Day for Free if You Want (Black People, Too)
Given the recent spike in awareness around implicit bias, and the dubious social media stardom for those who choose to act racistly, Starbucks on Saturday announced a new policy that allows black people anyone to sit in its stores or use its restrooms, regardless of whether they buy anything. One could argue that the sea…
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And Another One: California Starbucks Writes Racial Slur on Latino Customer’s Drink
Dear Starbucks Employees: The only thing you had to do was chill on the racist stuff for a month. That’s it. Go through most of May without doing some inane, easily documentable, biased bullshit. Then you’d take your afternoon of racial-bias awareness training, where you’d watch a video (or a really dynamic Powerpoint!) about how…
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It Turns Out, That Cop-Calling Starbucks Manager Might Be the Beckiest Becky Who Ever Beckied
Remember that white girl who called the cops on those two black guys? No, not the one from Yale. Sarah Braasch called the cops on one black guy for trying to study and one black woman for sleeping. That was totally different. No, not the Waffle House lady or the one from the cookout or…
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‘Calling the Police’ Is White People’s AppleCare for Black People
You’d think learning that Sarah Braasch—the woman who called the police on Yale graduate student Lolade Siyonbola for #NappingWhileBlack—is a philosophy Ph.D. candidate who’s studied gender and law would add something to this story. A surprise, perhaps, that a person who has undoubtedly encountered lessons on unconscious bias and systemic oppression would be so transparently…
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Ending the Policing of Black Bodies in Public Spaces Requires Not Just a Change of Policy but a Change of Heart
Chikesia Clemons at the Waffle House in Saraland, Ala. Myneca Ojo, Sandra Thompson, Sandra Harrison and a friend at Grandview Golf Club in York, Pa. Tshyrad Oates and a friend at LA Fitness in Secaucus, N.J. Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson at a Starbucks in Philadelphia. Brandon Ward at a Los Angeles-area Starbucks. Ezell A.…