Starbucks closed all 8000 of its stores Tuesday afternoon for anti-bias training. Starbucks chairman and founder Howard Schultz says what the company is doing is historic.  “There’s no company in America that has ever done anything like this.” He says this will cost the company “tens of millions of dollars,” but that it’s an “investment in our people and our community.” He also recommends this be a model of sorts for corporate America:

“Given the polarization in Washington and the political class of dysfunction that we have experienced for years that corporations, businesses, and business leaders have a moral obligation today to do much more for their employees and the communities they serve and race should be a subject they should be able to talk about, even though it’s difficult.”

Watch the full interview above.