15 Events in the Shady History of Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola’s marketers famously threatened to buy the world a Coke, and boy, did they make good on their promise.

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Sinaltrainal v. Coca-Cola

BBC

They Pay Scientists to Say Coke is Healthy

NYTimes

They Got Mixed Up in Apartheid

AP

They Only Took The Cocaine Out Because of Racism

NewYorker

Its First Controversy Was About Caffeine

Time

Its Next Owner Bought It At a Funeral

RoadSpoke

It Was Intended to Wean People Off Morphine

Smithsonian

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