Instead, controversy has erupted over the topless mermaid logo plastered on the cups that the new Starbucks brew is served in. The so-called brown heritage logo is, ahem, a tad more revealing that ...

Abroad, the logo was equally problematic. Around it was a ring that read “Starbucks Coffee,” and that shape drew your eye so much that you might not even notice the topless woodcut mermaid inside.

Tovrljan had the idea about a week ago, he says over email, when he saw Starbucks’s mermaid logo and wondered how ... how to implement subtle design changes that acknowledge our new reality ...

When I was growing up in the 1990s, the Black girls in my neighborhood had VHS watch parties featuring "The Little Mermaid." We persuaded our parents to buy us "Little Mermaid' comforter sets and ...