Tracy Jan Rachel Siegel The Washington Post

Public outrage over the arrest of two African-American men at a downtown Starbucks sparked a corporate crisis that led the company to take the unprecedented step of announcing it would close more than 8,000 stores for an afternoon in May to train baristas on how to recognize their own racial biases.

Public outrage over the arrest of two African-American men at a downtown Starbucks sparked a corporate crisis that led the company to take the unprecedented step of announcing it would close more than 8,000 stores for an afternoon in May to train baristas on how to recognize their own racial biases.