A Different Cola War
Activism is in Cyrus Mehri's DNA. Born on Bastille Day to Iranian parents who fled the Shah to raise their children in the U.S. , Mehri marched against the Vietnam War at age nine.

Big Suits: Keeping Tabs on Coca-Cola
In Atlanta, the city "too busy to hate," a race discrimination suit is taking some of the fizz out of the world's largest beverage maker.

Coke Was Told In '95 Of Need For Diversity
An internal report presented to Coca-Cola Co. Chairman M. Douglas Ivester more than three years ago recommended a number of initiatives to enhance diversity, including addressing "why there are so few African-Americans in certain areas and levels of the business. "

A Race-Bias Suit Tests Coke: Can the Real Thing Do the Right Thing?
Black political leaders and the white corporate elite have maintained a mostly peaceful, if uneasy, alliance since World War II here, and Coca-Cola Co. has been at the epicenter of it.

Commentary: Sideshow Begins in Suit Against Coke . . . Online
Like many judges, [Judge Richard] Story sees the judicial process as one devoted to balance, where all sides are heard, where each side responds to the other under his coaching and guidance, where fairness rules, and where at the end of the day everybody, winner and loser, feels his best case was heard.