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Media Coverage of the Tyson Case

Several national and international media outlets have covered this lawsuit. A sampling of this news coverage appears below:

  • Aina Hunter, Chicken Money: Tyson Foods Donate to Congressional Black Caucus, THE VILLAGE VOICE, Sept. 23, 2005, available at
    http://villagevoice.com/news/0539,hunter,68178,2.html.

  • Andrew Buncombe, U.S. Poultry Giant Under Fire After Segregation Scandal is Revealed, THE INDEPENDENT, Sept. 16, 2005, available at
    http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article312981.ece.

  • Black Factory Workers Sue for 'Segregation,’ THE NEW ZEALAND HERALD, Sept. 17, 2005.

  • CNN Daybreak 5:00 a.m. EST, CNN, Aug. 12, 2005.

  • Tyson Foods Inc.: U.S. Equal-Opportunity Suit Says Plant Segregated Restroom, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, Aug. 12, 2005.

  • Tyson Says No Evidence of ‘Whites Only’ Sign at Ashland Plant, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 12, 2005.

  • Deborah Barfield Berry, ‘Whites Only’ Sign Stirs a Suit, Black Workers Take Action After Notice Allegedly Put on Bathroom Door at Alabama Tyson Plant, NEWSDAY, Aug. 19, 2005.

  • EEOC Sues Tyson Over Alleged Race Discrimination, DOW JONES NEWS SERVICE, Aug. 11, 2005.

  • Tyson Foods Denies Racial Discrimination After Suit, REUTERS NEWS, Aug. 13, 2005.

  • Tyson Foods Sued for Race Bias and Retaliation Against Blacks; ‘Whites Only’ Restroom at Issue, THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION, Aug. 12, 2005.

  • Michael Cottman, Black Employees Sue Tyson Foods for Maintaining ‘Whites Only’ Restroom, BLACKAMERICAWEB.COM, Aug. 30, 2005, available at http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/bawnews/tysonfoods831.

  • Ed Wiley III, Tyson’s Gets Fried Over Alleged Discrimination, BET, Aug. 22, 2005, available at http://www.bet.com/News/TYSONFRIED.htm.

  • Roy L. Williams, EEOC sues Tyson over ‘Whites Only’, BIRMINGHAM NEWS, Aug. 12, 2005 at 1B.

  • T.J. DeGroat, After ‘Whites Only’ Bathroom Charge, Tyson Foods Tells DiversityInc Its Story, DIVERSITYINC, Sept. 12, 2005.

  • Rob Jordan, Lawsuits Allege ‘Racially Hostile’ Climate at Ashland Tyson Plant, ANNISTON STAR, Aug. 13, 2005.

 

 

 

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