Black Worker Sues General Mills Over Racist ‘Fun Facts’ Flyers

Black Worker Sues General Mills Over Racist ‘Fun Facts’ Flyers

A Black American former General Mills employee has filed a civil rights lawsuit accusing the food manufacturing giant of retaliation and racial discrimination after he objected to a series of “fun fact” flyers about Black history that he says trivialized racial atrocities. L. Lee Tyus Jr., who worked at the company’s St. Paul, Minnesota, facility from 2019 until his firing in March 2025, said the flyers were posted in the employee breakroom duri…