“CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Black businessman who owns McDonald’s restaurants in Cleveland sued the fast-food chain Tuesday, claiming it steered him to underperforming, inner-city markets while his white colleagues thrived in the suburbs. Attorneys for Herbert Washington, a…
Civil Rights
“Herb Washington, a former Oakland Athletics player who built the country’s largest Black-owned McDonald’s franchise operation, filed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing the fast-food giant of systemic racial discrimination for its pattern of steering Black owners into restaurants in…
“CLEVELAND (AP) — The Black owner of 14 McDonald’s franchises says the company has shown more favorable treatment to white owners and denied him the opportunity to buy restaurants in more affluent communities, according to a civil rights…
“In alleged retaliation for speaking out against unfair treatment of Black store owners, Herb Washington, one of the America’s greatest African-American business success stories said he is seeing his hard work dismantled by the McDonald’s fast-food corporation. And…
“A former pro baseball player who built one of the largest Black-owned McDonald’s franchises claims the company forced him to sell stores to white owners in a squeeze play that violated his civil rights. Herb Washington, a famed…
“For the fourth time in less than a year, former and current McDonald’s employees have filed a complaint accusing the fast food giant of racial discrimination. The civil rights suit […] accuses managers at a local McDonald’s of…
“McDonald’s released a slew of Black Lives Matter support posts and digital ads on social media, but the company doesn’t have the policies in place to back up the claim they support their Black workers. […] McDonald’s is…
“McDonald’s ice cream machines have a bad habit of being unavailable when you need them most, and now a programmer has reverse-engineered the McDonald’s app to track inoperable ice cream machines across all 14,000 locations in the U.S….
“Valley businessman Herb Washington is taking on the McDonald’s Corporation. In an announcement on Friday, the franchisee is suing McDonald’s, claiming that the company has “pressured him to sell one store after another to white franchisees,” the announcement…
“Valley businessman Herb Washington says McDonald’s Corp. is trying to take his black-owned businesses and give them to white ownership. So Washington says he’s taking the corporate giant to court in a civil rights action. Washington said in…