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Wednesday, October 7, 2026

Harvard Defeats Black Female Former Employee's Job Bias Lawsuit - Bloomberg Law

A Black female employee failed to back her claims that Harvard College was slow to promote her because of her race and gender and paid her less than White and male employees, a Boston federal judge ruled.

Amber Rucker was unable to rebut Harvard’s explanation that it followed its standard job reclassification process when it reclassified her from project coordinator I and salary grade 54 to project coordinator II and salary grade 55, the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts said. Because Rucker failed to show the college’s justification was pretextual, summary judgment was proper on her Title ...



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