CNN Black Employees File Racial Discrimination Suit

Former and current black employees of CNN on Wednesday filed a class-action lawsuit charging the network with racial discrimination, according to the law offices of Daniel R. Meachum & Associates.

According to legal documents obtained by TheWrap, the plaintiffs seek “declaratory, injunctive and other equitable relief, and compensatory and punitive damages, based on Defendants” discrimination against the named Plaintiffs and members of a class of African-American employees in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The suit claims CNN the company’s performance evaluation system is discrinatory because it is “implemented by managers exercising undue authority to make biased and inconsistent determinations with little or no oversight and/or feedback.”