One Northern California-based Starbucks barista said she contemplated leaving her job after the controversial arrest last month of two black men sitting at a Philadelphia location of the coffee chain ...

CHICAGO -- Turning away customers looking for an afternoon jolt of caffeine, Starbucks shops across the U.S. closed early on Tuesday to hold training for employees on recognizing hidden prejudices. It ...

Starbucks Executive Chairman Howard Schultz defended his decision to close his company’s stores for racial bias training Tuesday – saying it’s just the first step as part of the coffee chain’s ...

Over the course of four hours on Tuesday, 175,000 Starbucks employees talked about racial bias. Across the country, employees participated in a mandatory training. About 8,000 company-owned stores and ...

A 68-page guidebook and more than a dozen videos made up the majority of Starbucks’ hours-long racial bias training session on Tuesday, with much of the coffee seller's revamped curriculum focused on ...

Starbucks, trying to put to rest an outcry over the arrest of two black men at one of its stores, is closing more than 8,000 stores for an afternoon of anti-bias training, a strategy some believe can ...

CENTER CITY -- The chief executive officer of Starbucks says he will order managers of the coffee giant's stores to undergo training on how to spot "unconscious bias" after witnesses said two black ...

Reporting from NEW YORK — The three Starbucks managers didn’t know one another well before Tuesday morning. Huddled around an emerald guidebook at the start of the company’s racial bias training, they ...

Starbucks, trying to put to rest an outcry over the arrest of two black men at one of its stores, is closing more than 8,000 stores for an afternoon of anti-bias training, a strategy some believe can ...