Word: color
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When Rachel Seymour, an intern in the city manager's office, addressed the council, City Hall's Sullivan Chamber was filled nearly to capacity with city employees of color and their supporters...
...come before you today as a woman of color, a newcomer--not a native Cantabrigian--and I want to tell you that I've been shown nothing but respect in the city manager's office and seen nothing but respect shown toward other city employees," Seymour said...
Monday night's public hearing was prompted by a number of resignations and official complaints filed by high-ranking women of color who claim the city management has shown them discriminatory treatment in the workplace...
...highest-ranking women of color in the city administration, three have filed charges with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination in the past year, and a fourth resigned last month...
School committee member Robin Harris, also a woman of color, said she believed discrimination in city administration has been an ongoing phenomenon. Last year, when the newly-hired principal of the Agassiz Elementary School left her post before her first year was up, Harris said she believed discrimination was at the root of the conflict...