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648: Unteachable Moment
Act One

All the Caffeine in the World Doesn’t Make You Woke

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Kelefa Sanneh sits in on one of Starbucks’ anti-racial bias classes. There’s one thing that no one seems to want to talk about. (16 minutes)

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