corporate accountability
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A Manhattan federal jury has awarded former fitness executive Röbynn Europe more than $11.25 million after finding that luxury fitness company Equinox Holdings subjected her to a hostile work environment and unlawfully terminated her based on race and gender. The verdict, delivered in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, represents…
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The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) has launched a new effort to enlist corporate America in the escalating legal and political fight over congressional redistricting, sending letters to more than 250 companies urging them to oppose map-drawing initiatives that lawmakers say threaten Black political representation. The campaign comes amid renewed scrutiny of voting rights protections following…
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Campbell Soup Company has fired a senior executive after a secretly recorded conversation — now at the center of a Michigan lawsuit — captured him making racist remarks about Indian employees and sneering at the company’s own products as food “for poor people.” The termination of Martin Bally, Campbell’s former vice president of information technology,…
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A Louisiana family is taking their fight for environmental justice from the industrial corridor known as “Cancer Alley” to boardrooms and public stages across the country, urging banks and fossil fuel companies to end investments in projects they say are poisoning their community. Roishetta Ozane and her daughter Kamea live at the mouth of Cancer…
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Fast-food giant McDonald’s Corporation has reached a confidential settlement in a $10 billion racial discrimination lawsuit brought by Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios Networks (ESN), resolving years of litigation that accused the company of systematically excluding Black-owned media from its core advertising budgets. Filed in May 2021, the federal lawsuit alleged that McDonald’s maintained a discriminatory,…
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In a significant legal development, Pen Yu, also known as Ben Yu, 51, of Gibsonton, Florida, and Gregory Muñoz, 45, of Minneola, Florida, have admitted guilt to wire fraud conspiracy. This follows their involvement in a scheme to unlawfully obtain discounted products from Massachusetts biochemical company Sigma-Aldrich Inc., operating as MilliporeSigma, and unlawfully exporting them…
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