The Chronicle News Blog: Racial Discrimination Lawsuit Filed at Historically Black College
An employee of Bluefield State College has filed a racial-discrimination lawsuit against the West Virginia college, according to a report by WVVA, a local television station.
Rebecca Martin, who has worked at the college for more than 25 years, says that she was passed up for two positions, which went to white women.
The college, a historically black institution, has had trouble with discrimination charges in the past. In 1998 the college was ordered to reinstate a professor who said he had been harassed and fired after he criticized the racial composition of the college. At that time, the college was only 7 percent black and had recently fired its last black professor, although it was getting more than $1-million a year in federal funds as a historically black institution.
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