Alveda King challenged Starbucks to stop funding Planned Parenthood if they are serious about ending racism. King, the niece of Martin Luther King, Jr., serves as director of Civil Rights for the Unborn a Priests of Life.
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Starbucks closed all of its stores on Tuesday to conduct nationwide racial sensitivity training for 8,000 employees after two black men were arrested for declining to buy coffee in Philadelphia.
Amazon has halted plans to house 7,000 employees in a shiny new high rise in Seattle, Washington, after the city approved a plan to tax companies earning more than $20 million annually.
Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson will personally mentor 2 entrepreneurs who were famously arrested while waiting for a friend at a downtown Philadelphia Starbucks last month.
The two black men who were arrested for trespassing in a downtown Philadelphia Starbucks last month have settled with the city and Starbucks.
Starbucks will close 28,000 stores in the United States for "racial bias training" next month. Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson met with two black men and apologized after they were arrested for trespassing inside a Philadelphia Starbucks store last week.
A former Starbucks manager, who is under fire for calling the police on two black men for trespassing, says loitering in the Philadelphia coffeehouse has been an ongoing problem for years.
A Starbucks manager who called the police on two black men for not buying anything no longer works at the store, the corporation confirmed.
The Starbucks manager was removed from a Philadelphia location after another full day of protests at the coffee house.
Bobbi Kristina Brown's boyfriend, Nick Gordon was served with a $10 million lawsuit at a Longwood, Florida Starbucks. Gordon reportedly fled the Atlanta area for Florida after he learned he was considered the main suspect in Brown's accidental drowning at her Roswell town home in late January.
Troubled singer Robyn "Rihanna" Fenty was spotted out and about in California on Thursday with the man most responsible for her relationship problems -- her father.
Authorities are investigating the deaths of a lesbian couple whose bodies were found next to a dumpster in Port Bolivar, Texas.
Family and friends of Crystal Jackson, 24, and her girlfriend 24-year-old Britney Cosby hope police are close to solving the murders.
Jackson, left, and Cosby had been together for 2 years.
Welp, that didn't take long. A 'parody' coffee shop bearing the familiar name and logo of a certain famous coffeehouse chain was shut down by the Los Angeles health inspectors four days after its grand opening. The 'Dumb Starbucks' coffee shop opened its doors at 1802 Hillhurst Ave. to much fanfare as customers queued in long lines to sample the coffee with names such as "Dumb Espresso" and "Dumb Frappuccino."
President Barack Obama's daughters Malia Obama And Sasha Obama were seen heading to a Starbucks in the SoHo area of New York for ice coffee. On Friday, their father, the president, wrapped up a bus tour of New York to promote his program to lower college costs. The last time we saw Sasha Obama in SoHo, the 12-year-old was dressed in cut off shorts. But this time around, Sasha wore a virginal white dress. I expect to receive another email from the White House over these pictures. My mother is so proud that the White House cares so much about what I write.
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