Conversations on Racism and Resiliency with California Coffee Shop Owners of Color
El Cielito Café Founder Daniel Olivares. Courtesy photo. Daniel Olivares can recall being a young man living in Los Angeles when he visited a newly opened location of a high-end San Francisco-based specialty coffee chain in his neighborhood of Echo Park. He remembers seeing that two of the three coffees on offer at the sleek bar were from Latin America, yet everyone there making and buying the coffee was white. It has long been the case that specialty coffee shops have been markers of gentrification in certain communities, and that disparities carry through to the coffees themselves. Most of...
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