Pepsi

PepsiCo has launched a restaurant residency program to celebrate Black culinary innovators.

A new documentary—directed by Stanley Nelson and Jacqueline Olive—will capture the story of Pepsi’s pioneering all-Black sales team.

As the world continues to bash Pepsi for its tone-deaf ad featuring Kendall Jenner, another controversial moment featuring the soda giant resurfaced. Bill O’Reilly of Fox News, known for his harsh opinions and race-tinged comments, once decided to light up Pepsi for its ads featuring Ludacris for the 2002 MTV Awards. According to O’Reilly, Ludacris’ lyrics weren’t […]

Social media users slammed a new protest ad from Pepsi featuring Kendall Jenner for offensively co-opting ideas and images from resistance movements such as Black Lives Matter Tuesday.

The family of Anna Short Harrington, the woman who was the inspiration for much of the Aunt Jemima imagery, has filed a lawsuit against Pepsi Co. and its subsidiary the Quaker Oats Co., along with the Pinnacle Foods Group and the Hillshire Brands Co. D.W. Hunter, Harrington’s great-grandson, filed the class action lawsuit on behalf […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pepsi Beverages Co. will pay $3.1 million to settle federal charges of race discrimination for using criminal background checks to screen out job applicants — even if they weren’t convicted of a crime. SEE ALSO: Rick Santorum Falls Hard The settlement announced Wednesday with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is part of […]