Black Employees Suing CNN for Racial Discrimination.
'A group of current and former black employees of CNN cable news network,
Turner Broadcasting, and parent company Time Warner have filed a lawsuit
alleging racial discrimination, a report says.
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The class-action suit was filed after an earlier case involving CNN employee
DeWayne Walker was filed, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
“As a result of the current discrimination lawsuit filed on behalf of DeWayne
Walker vs. CNN, Time Warner & Turner, we have uncovered stories involving
abuse of power, nepotism, revenge, retaliation and discrimination,” attorney
Daniel Meachum said in a press release announcing the lawsuit.
Walker, who has worked for 13 years at CNN as an integrated marketing
manager, had filed a previous lawsuit alleging that the network repeatedly
passed him over for promotion because he is black.
He also claimed that CNN retaliated against him for filing a discrimination
complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The employee is demanding $50 million in damages.
Only two employees are named as plaintiffs in the class-action case:
Celeslie Henley, a former executive administrative assistant at CNN, and
Ernest Colbert Jr., a senior manager at Turner Broadcasting Systems.
But Meachum alleges that up to 30 other insiders helped them gather information
on the “company-wide pattern and practice” of discrimination that he claims
has gone on for at least 20 years...'
SOURCE:
'A group of current and former black employees of CNN cable news network,
Turner Broadcasting, and parent company Time Warner have filed a lawsuit
alleging racial discrimination, a report says.
The class-action suit was filed after an earlier case involving CNN employee
DeWayne Walker was filed, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
“As a result of the current discrimination lawsuit filed on behalf of DeWayne
Walker vs. CNN, Time Warner & Turner, we have uncovered stories involving
abuse of power, nepotism, revenge, retaliation and discrimination,” attorney
Daniel Meachum said in a press release announcing the lawsuit.
Walker, who has worked for 13 years at CNN as an integrated marketing
manager, had filed a previous lawsuit alleging that the network repeatedly
passed him over for promotion because he is black.
He also claimed that CNN retaliated against him for filing a discrimination
complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The employee is demanding $50 million in damages.
Only two employees are named as plaintiffs in the class-action case:
Celeslie Henley, a former executive administrative assistant at CNN, and
Ernest Colbert Jr., a senior manager at Turner Broadcasting Systems.
But Meachum alleges that up to 30 other insiders helped them gather information
on the “company-wide pattern and practice” of discrimination that he claims
has gone on for at least 20 years...'
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