Called a ‘cancer’ at work

JACKSON, Miss. — A public school for gifted students in Mississippi could not win summary judgment on the racial discrimination and retaliation claims brought by a fired Black administrative assistant, who was able to bring a genuine factual dispute as to whether the school’s executive director and a white female assistant violated her rights. She plausibly cited a conversation in which she was accused of having “disrespectful body language” and “resting bitch face,” and she was called “a cancer in this organization.”