An entire police department in Kenly, North Carolina resigned last week. This comes months after the hiring of a new city manager who is African-American. The police cited a hostile or stressful working environment. Justine Jones was chosen for the position after search which involved 30 candidates. Jones comes to the town of approx. 2,000 people […]
The manager’s call was later released, and he’s heard saying, “We have someone trying to cash a fake check with us. Yes, it’s a fake personal check.” The dispatcher asked, “What does he look like?” “Um … He’s African-American,” he said. The credit union says a third-party verification party is unable to authenticate a check […]
A Florida jury has awarded a Black man $4.4 million after finding he was wrongfully terminated in 2016 from his job as city manager of Hallandale Beach, Fla. City officials claimed he improperly used city money for travel during his previous job as deputy city manager, while the former city official said he’d got permission […]
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The incident gained attention after a Sept. 6 Reddit post reportedly by Mayrant himself in the AmazonDSPDrivers subreddit under the account VenusInDocMartens, which is seemingly to be his girlfriend’s account. Mayrant explains the altercation started over Boynton being upset about how the delivery vehicle was temporarily parked: “Today while driving I had to park in […]
A Black former McDonald’s shift manager says he was denied request to avoid shifts with another member of the crew who used racial slurs according to a lawsuit. Anthony Green filed against the company and a franchisee on August 19. Green was told by his manager that his hair was “unprofessional” on a few occasions and […]
A former tour manager for R. Kelly reluctantly testified Friday that he paid a $500 bribe to a government worker to get the singer Aaliyah a fake identification card so Kelly could secretly marry her when she was 15 years old. Demetrius Smith told a jury at Kelly’s sex-trafficking trial that after he went into a Chicago-area welfare office in 1994, he […]
A Wendy’s assistant manager in Kalamazoo, Michigan has been fired after a video showed him hurling insults at a young Black employee, calling her a “b***h” and saying she’s being “f**king lazy.” Sophia Cargill, a general manager in training at the restaurant, recorded the incident two weeks ago while she was being berated by her colleague, TMZ […]
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