A Black woman who was hired to be a “Director of Multicultural Brand Engagement” for Planned Parenthood in New York is suing her former employer for alleged racial discrimination.
In court papers, attorneys for Nicole Moore say their client worked for the reproductive rights organization between Jan. 13, 2020 and Nov. 2, 2021 before being “summarily fired” after raising myriad complaints of racial discrimination.
The federal lawsuit names the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. and Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Inc. as defendants — though both are referred to simply as a collective “Planned Parenthood” as the document progresses.
The lawsuit accuses Planned Parenthood of boasting a “commitment to racial equality” while “punishing employees of color who dare to speak up, pretextually disciplining them and creating working conditions so intolerable that they are effectively forced to leave.”
The document goes on:
Moore, a Black woman, became Planned Parenthood’s Director of Multicultural Brand Engagement in January 2020. She quickly earned a reputation as a hard worker, a creative thinker, and a team player beloved by her peers – except by one supervisor who had been accused of racist behavior by multiple Black employees for years without repercussion. Moore observed that Black employees in her department were assigned more work but given fewer opportunities to lead and that Black-centered campaigns were deprioritized and under-resourced.
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