Kid Rock’s Restaurant Hit With Bias Suit by Black Bartender

A fired black bartender for Kid Rock’s Made in America Restaurant says her managers fired her for wearing “her hair natural” rather than straightening it or putting it up like her white co-workers.

Carinne Silverman-Maddox says in a federal lawsuit she was pulled from her shift and suspended the first time she wore a “curly Afro” at work at the restaurant, which is located in Little Caesars Arena. The arena is the home of the NBA’s Detroit Pistons and the NHL’s Detroit Red Wings.

The restaurant’s general manager and floor manager falsely told her they had witnessed her overpouring a ...