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Sephora Closing Stores For Diversity Training After SZA Was Racially Profiled

Posted on June 2nd, 2019
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Staff Editor


Sephora will be shutting down 400 stores for a day to conduct a inclusion workshop on June 5th. The workshops are in response to the incident where singer SZA was racially profiled while shopping at one of it’s stores in California.

On April 30, SZA said that she was shopping for Fenty Beauty products at a Calabasas store outside of Los Angeles when an employee, who she nicknamed “Sandy Sephora,” called security to make sure she wasn’t stealing.

Sephora responded to SZA stating:

“You are a part of the Sephora family, and we are committed to ensuring every member of our community feels welcome and included at our stores. We want to let you know we take complaints like this very seriously and are actively working with our teams to address the situation immediately.”

Sephora’s initiative is part of the retailer’s new brand platform and tagline, “We Belong to Something Beautiful.” The training will also include employees in Sephora’s distribution centers and corporate offices, the company said.

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