A Lesson In How To Overcome Implicit Bias [npr.org]

Alicia Doktor 4/23/184:00 AM

A week after two black men were arrested at a Starbucks store in Philadelphia, the company announced plans to close 8,000 stores across the country on May 29 for an afternoon of racial bias education.

Many people remain skeptical if such training will actually work and prevent further incidents like this, and it's not entirely known what the afternoon of training will include.

In an interview with Morning Edition host Noel King, Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, said the company was in the beginning stages of planning what the entire afternoon would entail.

[For more on this story by AILSA CHANG, go to https://www.npr.org/sections/c...ercome-implicit-bias]

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