Starbucks explains its race relations campaign. Benjamin Netanyahu is on track to continue as Israel’s prime minister. And BuzzFeed’s Matt Stopera journeys to China to find “Brother Orange.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his Likud Party won "against all odds" in the Israeli election. With 99% of ballots counted, Netanyahu's Likud Party captured about 30 seats in parliament, while opponent Zionist Union captured 24 — a surprising win for the prime minister after pre-election polls showed the rival party with a narrow lead, BuzzFeed News' Sheera Frenkel reports from Tel Aviv. The victory means Netanyahu is all but certain to serve a fourth term, putting him on track to become Israel's longest-serving prime minister. USA Today has a round-up of five ways Netanyahu's re-election matters for Israel and its relationships abroad.
The Starbucks race relations push will go beyond coffee cups. Yesterday, the company announced that it would be bringing racial dialogue to a coffee shop near you by encouraging its baristas to discuss race relations with customers. The campaign didn't exactly get off to a smooth start, but there's more. BuzzFeed News' business editor Tom Gara talked to Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz about how the company will put a little more of its money where its mouth is.
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We asked Tom to do a quick recap for us, and you can read the entire article here.
TOM GARA: Today, Starbucks will outline a new commitment to focus its hiring on what Schultz described as the millions of "disenfranchised and disconnected" young Americans, mainly black and Latino, who are both unemployed and out of school. The hiring commitment is part of a broader campaign on race relations the company announced on Monday, which will include an 8-page supplement published in USA Today and a much-derided and healthily-mocked plan to encourage baristas to discuss race with customers.
How people are reacting to the decision by San Francisco 49ers linebacker Chris Borland to retire at 24 due to concerns about brain trauma. He announced yesterday that he’s quitting football after just one very promising season in the NFL. Grantland’s Bill Barnwell writes: “How inherently wrong is football that a guy who could have made millions of dollars over the course of his career is throwing that away and we all agree it’s the right idea? And if it’s that wrong, why are any of us watching?”
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