"MAKE UP A STORY. NARRATIVE IS RADICAL, CREATING US AT THE VERY MOMENT IT’S BEING CREATED.” —TONI MORRISON
A week after two black men were arrested at a Starbucks store in Philadelphia, the company announced plans to close 8,000 stores for an afternoon of racial bias training.
"Implicit bias” is the brain's automatic processing of negative stereotypes about particular groups of people often without conscious awareness.
Buried biases influence our feelings, decisions, and behavior in sometimes surprising ways.
It takes more than one day to completely address implicit biases. Recognizing and overcoming these biases can be challenging, but, we do have the capacity to override our biases.
With that in mind, we’re working to create a different narrative to bridge differences.
