“We sincerely hope the filing of this race class action wakes 21st Century Fox from its slumbers
and inspires the company to take a conciliatory and appropriate approach to remedy its wrongs.”
Another former Fox News employee, Adasa Blanco, filed a separate racial discrimination lawsuit on Tuesday against Fox News, Ms. Slater
and Dianne Brandi, the top lawyer at Fox News, in federal court in the Southern District of New York.
Julie Roginsky, an on-air contributor at Fox News, also filed a sexual harassment lawsuit this month against the network, Mr. Ailes and Mr.
Ms. Roginsky said she had faced retaliation for refusing sexual advances from Mr. Ailes.
Eleven current and former Fox News employees filed a class-action lawsuit in New York against the
network, accusing it of “abhorrent, intolerable, unlawful and hostile racial discrimination.”
The lawsuit, filed in State Supreme Court in the Bronx, expands a complaint filed at the end of March by Tichaona Brown
and Tabrese Wright, two black women who worked in the Fox News payroll department.
Among the plaintiffs are Kelly Wright, a current Fox News anchor
and former co-host of “Fox & Friends Weekend,” who said Mr. O’Reilly refused to allow him on his show to discuss racial conciliation and instead suggested he should call Mr. Ailes and Bill Shine, one of the network’s presidents, and “offer to sing the national anthem at the Fox News Town Halls,” according to the suit.