Salt Lake Tribune · May 30, 2018
Jonathan Capehart: Why I take Starbucks seriously on race
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“Tonight, my thoughts go back to December of 2014, when our country was being shaken by protests and unrest in the name of Eric Garner, in the name of Trayvon Martin, in the name of so many others. When cities across America became battlegrounds,” Howard Schultz said in his remarks accepting the National Equal Justice Award at the annual NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) dinner in New York last November where I served as the emcee. “As I watched the coverage, the tension in the streets, I grew more and more restless. I felt I couldn’t be a bystander. I had to act.”