Community rallies around Bake Me Happy following racial threats
Shortly after Bake Me Happy closed Sunday amid racial threats of violence, the community covered the business in love. Customers taped colorful paper hearts with messages including “we’ve got your back” and “you are loved” to the Merion Village gluten-free bakery’s door and window. When the business reopened early Tuesday morning, people continued the support by placing a steady stream of orders. Erin Satterwhite, a first-time customer, emerged from the building with a bag of oatmeal cookies, zebra cakes and more. “I was extremely outraged,” said the 28-year-old PhD student f...