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Hey everyone, I'm Jonathan Kapart and welcome to K-Bup. A black man who had just taken his sister

to her prom, was choked by police at Waffle House in North Carolina

after an altercation that reportedly started

because they sat at a table before it was clean.

That was the fourth incident at a Waffle house over a 12-day period to get

national attention. Two black men were arrested at a Starbucks in Philadelphia after

a manager called the police because the two hadn't bought anything as they waited to start a business meeting.

Today the coffee retailer is closing all of its stores nationwide to conduct a company-wide training on racial bias.

We're taking this opportunity to present to you a special episode on race.

These past interviews will explore the history of African Americans in this country

and how that informs what Starbucks employees will be hearing today.

We all should be there.

We all should understand the genesis of the problem.

To understand it, we gotta start at the problem. To understand it, we got to start at the beginning. Slavery. In her book,

the price for their pound of flesh, Professor Dinah Ramey Berry shows how the devaluation of

black life started in bondage.

Slavery is still very much a part of American culture, American history.

Well that gets to the next question.

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