Starbucks closes 8,000 stores for employee classes in rooting out racial bias

For four hours today, more than 175,000 Starbucks employees set aside the Frappuccinos and espresso machines to learn how to avoid the kind of racial bias that many say led to the arrests of two African-American men for occupying a table without making a purchase.

Starbucks’ top officials called last month’s arrests of Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson at a downtown Philadelphia store “reprehensible,” apologized to them and vowed to turn their...READ MORE