It’s not easy to sit down, collect your thoughts and put pen to paper to produce something coherent, let alone insightful, when you’re surrounded by dumpster fires both metaphorical and literal. Therefore, we’d like to genuinely thank everyone who was willing and able this challenging year to distill their thoughts and share them with DCN’s readers and the coffee industry at large.
Below is a review of some of our most popular columns published in 2020, beginning with an “Open Letter to the US Coffee Industry on Racism” penned by BD Imports Founder Phyllis Johnson on June 1, not long after Minneapolis police killed George Floyd: