Former Black Employee Sues Planned Parenthood for Racial Discrimination

Reproductive justice advocate Nicole Moore is suing her former employer, Planned Parenthood (PP), for racial discrimination. The Nicole Moore v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. lawsuit has currently been referred to mediation, said Chloe Liederman, one of Moore’s Crumiller P.C. attorneys.

In a lawsuit filed in October 2022 with the help of the feminist litigation firm Crumiller P.C., Moore, who was hired in January 2020 to serve as PP’s director of multicultural brand engagement, alleged that when she spoke up about racist behavior at the organization, and about how Black employees were overworked yet not being rewarded for their labors, “she was falsely accused of being negative, angry, difficult to work with, and chastised for her ‘tone’––complaints that had no basis in reality but comported with well-trafficked stereotypes about Black women,” Moore’s lawsuit contends.

PP’s executives’ efforts to reprimand and silence her led Moore to suffer such a severe panic attack that she wound up spending a day in the hospital. When she reached out to the company’s human resources department for support, Moore says she was fired.

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