Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • The Guardian

    Coffee shop racism: where America's racial divisions are exposed

    Many say the Starbucks incident exposed discrimination that people of color and black people in particular face every day
    by Adam Gabbatt May 28, 2018 4 minutes
    The sign for a Starbucks Coffee shop is seen in Washington, DC, April 17, 2018, following the company's announcement that they will close more than 8,000 US stores on May 29 to conduct 'racial-bias education' following the arrest of two black men in one of its cafes. / AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB / Getty Images

    When two black men were arrested in a Starbucks store in Philadelphia in April, it prompted a national debate. The coffee chain swiftly announced it would close 8,000 of its US stores on Tuesday 29 May, so staff can undergo racial bias training.

    Many believe such incidents do not only happen at Starbucks. Businesses across the US, some say, are guilty of a behavior so commonplace it is starting to be given its own term: “coffee shop racism”.

    Alfredo Weeks, an instructor at the Columbus College of Art and Design and co-owner of a graphic design studio, was moved to write about the phenomenon.

    “I open the door to a coffee shop, and as soon as I

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from The Guardian

    The Guardian4 min read
    The Big Idea: Should We Abolish Literary Genres?
    In her Reith lecture of 2017, recently published for the first time in a posthumous collection of nonfiction, A Memoir of My Former Self, Hilary Mantel recalled the beginnings of her career as a novelist. It was the 1970s. “In those days historical f
    The Guardian8 min read
    PinkPantheress: ‘I Don’t Think I’m Very Brandable. I Dress Weird. I’m Shy’
    PinkPantheress no longer cares what people think of her. When she released her lo-fi breakout tracks Break it Off and Pain on TikTok in early 2021, aged just 19, she did so anonymously, partly out of fear of being judged. Now, almost three years late
    The Guardian3 min readWorld
    Historians Come Together To Wrest Ukraine’s Past Out Of Russia’s Shadow
    The opening salvo in Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February last year was not a rocket or a missile. Rather, it was an essay. Vladimir Putin’s On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians, published in summer 2021, ranged over 1,00

    Related Books & Audiobooks