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National

A Lesson In How To Overcome Implicit Bias

5:17pm April 19, 2018

It's still unclear what Starbucks' unconscious bias trainings will entail. But to get an idea of what existing workshops look like, NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Alexis McGill Johnson of the Perception Institute.

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Wyatt Cenac's new show tackles American policing.

Wyatt Cenac Wants To Talk About Policing

9:44am April 19, 2018

by Linda Holmes

Cenac's new HBO show, Wyatt Cenac's Problem Areas, is a 10-part comedy-documentary focused on American policing and its considerable challenges.

A man walks by a New York City auto dealership in 2017. Studies have found that African-Americans and Hispanics have systematically been charged a higher markup on auto loans than have white borrowers.

Senate Votes To Roll Back Rules Aimed At Fair Auto Lending For Minorities

7:25pm April 18, 2018

by Charles Lane

The measure, which now heads to the House, would roll back federal policies aimed at protecting minority buyers from discriminatory loan terms. The vote could lead to the rollback of other rules.

Starbucks Stores To Close For An Afternoon Of Racial-Bias Education

7:14am April 18, 2018

Noel King talks to Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, who is among the experts advising the company on the curriculum.

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Scandal's Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) is based on real-life African-American political fixer Judy Smith.

Arts

'Scandal' Will Keep On Giving Long After Olivia Pope Handles Her Last Crisis

5:00am April 18, 2018

by Eric Deggans

When the show premiered in 2012, it had been decades since network TV presented a drama starring a black woman. Scandal reshaped the landscape. Its final episode airs Thursday.

Protesters demonstrate outside a Starbucks in Philadelphia on Sunday, several days after police arrested two black men who were waiting inside the Center City coffee shop. The chain has announced it will close for an afternoon on May 29 for companywide ra

National

Starbucks Closing 8,000 Stores For An Afternoon, For Racial-Bias Education

7:37pm April 17, 2018

by Camila Domonoske

Last week, two black men were arrested at a Starbucks in Philadelphia, where they were quietly waiting to meet someone. Starbucks has apologized and has now announced a training on May 29.

Starbucks is mired in controversy after the arrests of two black men last week in one of its Philadelphia locations. But recent history shows the coffee chain is no stranger to cultural conflict.

National

With Philadelphia Arrests, Starbucks Again Becomes Focus Of Cultural Debate

4:25pm April 17, 2018

by Ian Wren

Starbucks faces protests after the arrests of two black men last week in one of its locations. From #BlackLivesMatter to refugee resettlement, the coffee chain is no stranger to social causes.

A statue of surgeon J. Marion Sims is taken down from its pedestal in Central Park on Tuesday. A New York City panel decided to move the controversial statue after outcry, because many of Sims' medical breakthroughs came from experimenting on enslaved bla

'Father Of Gynecology,' Who Experimented On Slaves, No Longer On Pedestal In NYC

3:44pm April 17, 2018

by Camila Domonoske

J. Marion Sims perfected a new surgical procedure by repeatedly operating, without anesthesia, on enslaved women in the 1840s. New York City is moving his Central Park statue to a cemetery.

Bystander video captured an incident in which police in Cambridge, Mass., are seen punching a black Harvard student who was naked in the median.

National

Video Shows Police Tackling, Punching Black Harvard Student

12:26pm April 17, 2018

by Laurel Wamsley

Police in Cambridge, Mass., had responded to calls of a naked man in the street. "Cambridge affirms that Black Lives Matter, but it must be true in practice as well," the city's mayor said.

National

Protests Continue At Philadelphia Starbucks

5:16am April 17, 2018

by Peter Crimmins

Protests continued Monday at a Philadelphia Starbucks where two black men were arrested Saturday after an employee accused them of trespassing.

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