Mississippi College, Older Black Ex-Hoops Coach Headed to Trial

Northwest Mississippi Community College will have to defend at trial claims by its former head women’s basketball coach that he was ousted because he is Black and was 59 years old.

The ruling Monday by the US District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi rejected the college’s argument that a jury couldn’t find the coach was subjected to race discrimination because his replacement is Black. That “fact is a quite unhelpful one” to the coach’s claims under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 42 U.S.C. §1981, but it doesn’t eliminate a reasonable finding of racial bias, ...