French anti-racism activists who telephoned temporary employment agencies posing as a construction firm that wanted to hire only “European” workers say that more than one-third of the firms agreed to help with the discriminatory search.
Last Thursday a shocking display of racism spewed out of the mouth of a white Oklahoma City news anchor after a segment about the local zoo prompted her to compare her Black co-anchor to a gorilla. KOCO-TV white news anchor, Alex Housden apologizes after comparing her co-anchor, Jason Hackett to a gorilla. https://t.co/8h7u9jGo1Tpic.twitter.com/NmztJOEd5U — Complex […]
A congressional hearing on Thursday, November 8, 2017, about sexual harassment on the job, revealed that a federal employee not only experienced sexual harassment but that a former boss brought and displayed a whip to, “’motivate’ the black employees.” Raw Story reports that Gloria Lett of the Office of House Employment Counsel explained to the […]
The struggles of being a Black professional are multi-layered. We’re often underrepresented in a lot of the places we’re employed. Finding allies that look like…