Sephora Won’t Solve Racism In An Hour, Obviously.

We can confidently report that Sephora did not solve racism on Wednesday.

The makeup giant shut down stores across the U.S. for an hour so its 16,000 employees could attend an “inclusivity workshop.”

The training comes about a month after singer-songwriter SZA tweeted about being racially profiled at a Sephora outlet in Calabasas, California. An employee called security on the R&B artist while she was trying to buy makeup from fellow singer Rhianna’s popular brand. “Can a bitch cop her fenty in peace er whut?” SZA tweeted.

Sephora responded the next day, telling SZA that she is “part of the Sephora family,” but stopped short of an apology. Later in May, the company announced the store closures, part of its “We Belong to Something Beautiful” campaign, which it said was in the works long before the incident in Calabasas.

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Dr. Stefanie K. Johnson is an Associate Professor of Management at the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder. She holds a Ph.D. from Rice University and is particularly interested in the effects of unconscious biases in the evaluation of women and minorities, with the goal of finding ways to mitigate those biases. Dr. Johnson brings bias to light with an engaging and humorous approach to advanced scientific research, which has earned her numerous accolades and invitations to present her work at meetings around the world, including the White House for a 2016 summit on diversity in corporate America on National Equal Pay Day, and the 2016 Harvard Negotiation and Leadership Conference. She has published over 70 journal articles and book chapters in outlets such as Harvard Business Review, Journal of Applied Psychology and The Academy of Management Journal. She has extensive consulting experience and has created and delivered leadership-development training with an emphasis on evidence-based practice. In recognition of her unique research, Dr. Johnson has been awarded nearly three million dollars in external funding to study leadership and create leadership development programs aimed at increasing safety. Media outlets featuring her work include: The Economist, Newsweek, Time, and CNN. Stefanie lives in the Boulder Bubble in Colorado with her Biology Professor husband, two young kiddos, and two old kitties.