Starbucks cafes shut for racial training

By Lisa Baertlein
Updated April 18 2018 - 9:26am, first published 9:22am
Protesters stage a sit-in at a Philadelphia Starbucks where two black men were arrested.
Protesters stage a sit-in at a Philadelphia Starbucks where two black men were arrested.

Starbucks will close 8,000 company-owned US cafes for the afternoon on May 29 so 175,000 employees can undergo racial tolerance training in response to protests and calls for boycotts after the arrest of two black men waiting in a Philadelphia store.

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