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The Times podcast: When your anti-Black co-worker is Latino

Murrieta, California, anti-Black discrimination victim
Barry Bryant at his home in Murrieta, Calif. Bryant is among some 300 Black employees who will be compensated as a result of EEOC settlements with Cardinal Health, Ryder Logistics and Kimco Staffing over workplace discrimination.
(Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)
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Two of the largest race discrimination cases investigated by the federal government in the last decade allege widespread abuse of hundreds of Black employees by supervisors and co-workers at warehouses in Southern California’s Inland Empire. Sadly, anti-Black bias on the job is nothing new. But as the Latino population across the U.S. and especially California continues to grow, anti-Black bias by Latinos in the workplace is drawing renewed scrutiny.

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Host: Gustavo Arellano

Guests: L.A. Times labor reporter Margot Roosevelt

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