Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney said Saturday "I'm heartbroken to see Philadelphia in the headlines for an incident that ... appears to exemplify what racial discrimination look like in 2018," local media reported.
Here’s just one example: The neighborhood where the two men were arrested has the highest racial disparity in pedestrian stops in the city of Philadelphia, according to the ACLU. While the black population of Philadelphia’s Ninth District was only 3%, black pedestrians made up 67% of police...
Johnson apologized for the incident at the start of the call, and said Starbucks' (SBUX) leadership team remains on the ground in Philadelphia. The company isclosing 8,200 of its U.S. storeson May 29 to conduct a racial bias training for all its workers -- something Johnson said w...
It's possible the impact will be short-lived, especially if no other incidents occur that mirror the racial bias of the Philadelphia arrest. However, another alleged incident of racial bias emerged in Los Angeles, when a black man claimed he was denied access to a bathroom at a Los Angeles...
Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross apologized for "making [the incident] worse" when he initially said officers did nothing wrong in arresting two black men.I'm walking my 11-year-old daughter -- who's almost 12, but going on 20 -- around the corner from our apartment to the ...
Up until the Philadelphia incident, it’s hard to imagine anyone being mad at Starbucks. Clearly it has walked the social responsibility talk. But when a request to use a restroom in the Philadelphia store escalated into the arrests of the two men who had come there to meet a friend, ...
For Starbucks, listening begins at the interview phase. Hiring right-skilled, purpose-aligned partners is essential—as the 2018 Philadelphia racial profiling incident reminded Starbucks’s leadership and the world. “We make sure that we’re taking care of our p...
on May 29 to conduct “racial bias training,” per a Starbucks news release. “I’ve spent the last few days in Philadelphia with my leadership team listening to the community, learning what we did wrong and the steps we need to take to fix it,” said Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson i...
The former Starbucks CEO admitted that it's possible that what unfolded in Philadelphia is not an "isolated" incident and said a complete review of their policies is in the works. Would the police have been called if the customers were white? He doesn't think so. ...
NEW YORK — Starbucks, mocked three years ago for suggesting employees discuss racial issues with customers, asked workers to talk about race with each other. It was part of the coffee chain’s anti-bias training Tuesday, created after the arrest of two black men in a Philadelphia Starbucks ...