Texas A&M reaches $1 million settlement with Black journalism professor

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Texas A&M University reached a $1 million settlement with Black journalism professor Kathleen McElroy after botched attempts to hire her unraveled.

The nation’s largest public school agreed to pay Kathleen McElroy $1 million, and apologized to her while admitting “mistakes were made during the hiring process.”

But McElroy said soon after her hiring, which including a public signing ceremony, that she learned of emerging internal pushback from unidentified individuals over her past work to improve diversity and inclusion in newsrooms.

 

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