Top Starbucks Corp. executives and approximately 40 Philadelphia clergy and community leaders met on Wednesday in what local leaders say was the beginning of an effort to push the coffee company to play a leading role in addressing racial injustice.
The meeting, attended by Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz and Chief Executive Kevin Johnson, came a few days after a social-media outcry about the treatment of two black men at a Philadelphia Starbucks last week.
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