*Brittany Noble, a Black news anchor from Jackson, Mississippi, has detailed in a lengthy post the workplace discrimination she endured, which eventually led to her termination.
In a Medium post, which has gone viral, Noble reveals specific instances where she had to navigate through a toxic environment at CBS affiliate WJTV, and it prompted her to file several HR complaints.
One such complaint was lodged after a supervisor commented on her natural, curly hair, saying it looked “unprofessional”.
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She wrote:
“Let’s be clear my look has never been unprofessional on TV. But my boss would invite me into his office for closed-door meetings where he got away with saying extremely unprofessional comments.
After having my son, I asked my news director if I could stop straightening my hair. A month after giving me the green light I was pulled back into his office. I was told, ‘My natural hair is unprofessional and the equivalent to him throwing on a baseball cap to go to the grocery store.”
He even asked, “Why my hair doesn’t lay flat.”
The same boss allegedly said: “Mississippi viewers needed to see a beauty queen.”
After a two month investigation that included a review of the recordings Noble shared of their conversation, her boss was fired – but the racist culture still thrived within the company.
Noble told The Daily Dot: “They replaced the boss and the behaviour [sic] continued.”
She added that the news station terminated her three-year-contract last May after she used her “own sick time” to care for her dying grandfather.
She intends to spill the tea on all the investigations that were allegedly dismissed when she worked at WJTV.
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