Hearst Defeats Black Former Recruiter’s Race Discrimination Suit

A Black former Hearst Communications Inc. recruiter failed to support her claims that the company illegally discriminated and retaliated against her based on her race, a federal judge in Texas said.

Kendrea Bullitt failed to raise a genuine issue of fact that Hearst’s stated reason for her termination—that there was “an economic-driven decline” in job offerings at the company, which “led to a need to eliminate one recruiter position” and she was the “lowest performing, non-technical recruiter"—was a pretext for discrimination, Judge Barbara M. G. Lynn of the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas wrote in a ...