Famous Dave’s Worker Gets Race Harassment, Bias, Reprisal Trial

A Famous Dave’s franchise in Michigan may have harassed and discriminated against a catering call center specialist because she’s Black and fired her for complaining about the bias, a Detroit federal judge ruled.

Evidence Christina Gore-Reed’s Blue Ribbon Restaurants Novi LLC coworkers mockingly used “African American verbiage” on a daily basis and commenting on her hair could be seen as creating a hostile environment, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan said in deciding a trial’s needed in the case.

Gore-Reed was one of two non-White employees when she was hired, and the other left a few ...