‘This Sends a Strong Message’: Black Man Fired from Alabama Industrial Company for Exposing Coworker Who Called Him the N-word Gets the Last Laugh

‘This Sends a Strong Message’: Black Man Fired from Alabama Industrial Company for Exposing Coworker Who Called Him the N-word Gets the Last Laugh

A federal judge in Alabama issued a judgment last month awarding nearly $1 million in damages to a Black millwright who alleged he was called the N-word by a co-worker, then demoted and fired by an industrial services company after he complained. The judgment of $978,075 ordered by U.S. Magistrate Judge Bradley Murray in Alabama was $338,000 more than a jury had awarded the plaintiff in May after hearing the racial discrimination case that Quent…