Comcast and Time Warner Cable, along with Al Sharpton’s National Action Network and the NAACP, were hit with a $20 billion racial discrimination lawsuit by the National Association of African-American Owned Media (Naaom) for allegedly blocking equal access by black-owned networks. The suit, filed in federal court on Friday, claims that the groups collaborated to make Comcast/NBCUniversal appear to fight for diversity, but instead kept 100-percent black-owned networks out of the mix. Also Read: At&T, DirecTV Hit With $10 Billion Race Discrimination Lawsuit Friday’s lawsuit is the second Naaom has filed against major media companies. The group filed a $10 billion suit against.
- 2/23/2015
- by L.A. Ross
- The Wrap
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