Fired Football Coach Charges Community College With Racial Bias

Highland Community College in Kansas was hit with a lawsuit by a former assistant coach for the school’s football team who alleges he was fired for reporting racial discrimination.

Enoch Smith alleges that he observed “ongoing acts of racial discrimination and harassment by HCC football coaches and administrators directed at Black student-athletes, employees, and others,” according to the complaint filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the District of Kansas.

Smith voiced his concerns to the coaching staff and athletic director, “who dismissed them,” the complaint alleges.

Throughout the fall of 2021, the complaint alleges, Smith “tried repeatedly to ...