Black AT&T Employee Says She Was Fired After Getting Racist Death Threat

A woman in Ohio who worked at AT&T for more than 30 years has filed a lawsuit against the telecommunications company, accusing it of discriminatory retaliation after she says she was fired for reporting a “racist, misogynistic” threat she received that called her the N-word.

Stacey Fowler, 53, launched a legal battle on Sept. 28 with AT&T, its Midwest division, and AT&T subsidiary Ohio Bell Telephone Company for their “abhorrent and shocking conduct,” the complaint says.

“AT&T did not treat the vicious and vile, racist and misogynistic Death Threat that Fowler reported with any urgency or gravity,” the lawsuit alleges.

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