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By Summer M. 9:06 am November 29, 2010 I’ve been nursing a lemon pound cake jones by going to Starbucks a bit more often than I’d like. I know it is not a business that I should patronize with my...
View ArticleStarbucks’ New Initiative Encourages Baristas to Talk About Race
By diamond 11:33 am March 17, 2015 Starbucks has released an new initiative that is bound to be one of the worst ideas this year. The coffee chain’s “RaceTogether” program is encouraging baristas to...
View ArticleWhite Starbucks Patron Yells ‘You’re garbage…I voted for Trump!’ At Black...
A lot of people were surprised over Donald Trump’s performance in the polls, and even more surprised by his election win. Part of this was because they imagined that his only support was coming from...
View ArticleWhite Starbucks customer calls Black customer ‘slave’ and punches pedestrian
What is it about shopping that gets racists so worked up all the time? Is it the long lines? Maybe it’s the fact that they’re finally coming face-to-face with the people they hate and can’t hide behind...
View ArticleStarbucks CEO apologizes to Black men arrested in Philly store, Black police...
A white person who calls the police on a Black person—without legitimate threat to person, property or loved ones—greatly increases the odds that the Black person will be harmed or killed. Last...
View ArticleWaffle House, Starbucks, and the unalterable anti-Black, patriarchal violence...
“Black Men Arrested At Starbucks Said They Were There For 2 Minutes Before 911 Call” — The Huffington Post The headlines blaze, sear into your consciousness, don’t let up, suffocate. Eventually they...
View ArticleThe “positive outcome” of the Starbucks arrest won’t save us because it...
By L.N. Lewis I visit a certain website almost monthly, reading names and cross-checking news stories. It is a stark spreadsheet, a database of nightmares reaching back to May 1, 2013, titled...
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