Starbucks to close more than 8,000 stores for racial-bias training

Starbucks is plowing ahead with its crisis response—and being applauded for
its efforts.
On Tuesday, the coffee chain announced that on the afternoon of May 29,
it’s shutting down more than 8,000 stores in the United States for
racial-bias training.
The move follows
both a written and video apology given by the company’s chiefexecutive, Kevin Johnson, after two black men were arrested in one of Starbucks’ Philadelphia
locations. The video of the arrests went viral last w