She says she complained for years - and claims the people paid to listen looked away

A Black director who spent more than a decade at CBS says its HR team didn't just fail her - it helped push her out.

That accusation sits at the center of a lawsuit filed June 15, 2026, in federal court in Washington, D.C. Sherece Shemeka Brown is suing CBS News, CBS Broadcasting and parent company Paramount Global, along with nine individual employees. Two of them work in the function HR leaders run every day: a Human Resources Director and a Vice President of Employee Relations. For anyone in the field, that's the hook.

Brown joined CBS in 2008 as a page and rose to Associate Director, according to the complaint. The filing says she was moved from New York to the D.C. bureau in late 2020 as a condition of her job - told her show was relocating there, then told it would stay in New York. She frames the transfer as a setup meant to force her out.

What followed, the complaint says, was a pattern of unequal treatment. Brown alleges she had to handle two or three jobs at once without extra pay, while white colleagues with the same Associate Director title kept their support staff. She says white employees who relocated to D.C. had their travel and lodging covered, while she paid her own way. And she claims she was passed over for a promotion she was qualified for, losing it to a white colleague under what she calls a pretextual, union-related excuse.

The complaint also attributes a string of...

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