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Philadelphia • Starbucks will close more than 8,000 U.S. stores for an afternoon next month to train employees after two black men were arrested while waiting at one of the coffee chain’s Philadelphia stores last week.
The “racial-bias education” training will occur on May 29 and be provided to nearly 175,000 employees, the company said in a statement Tuesday.
The announcement follows days of protest and a personal apology by the company’s chief executive, Kevin Johnson, to the men in a private meeting Monday, a company spokeswoman confirmed to The Washington Post.