nytimes.com - Vernicia Colon did not know whether to be angry, amused or flattered when Starbucks announced its campaign to prompt barista-led conversations on race. She knew the complexities of being an overlooked “other” in the usual black-white discussions, and not just because she is the child of a Puerto Rican mother and a black father.
Months before Starbucks’s much-derided “Race Together” initiative, she ran the Mix Coffeehaus, a South Bronx pop-up shop that used the act of ordering coffee to get customers to explore their own racial identity.
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