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Roosevelt Island’s Black executives fired, discrimination suit continues

Summary by New York Amsterdam News
Executives of the Black Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation (RIOC) — its CEO and President Shelton Haynes, and General Counsel Gretchen Robinson — were fired last year amidst a racial discrimination lawsuit against the state.Roosevelt Island is located in New York City’s East River near Manhattan and is a New York State public benefit corporation that runs the island. Haynes started working there in 2016, and was the second Black person to ho…

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Roosevelt Island’s Black executives fired, discrimination suit continues

Executives of the Black Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation (RIOC) — its CEO and President Shelton Haynes, and General Counsel Gretchen Robinson — were fired last year amidst a racial discrimination lawsuit against the state.Roosevelt Island is located in New York City’s East River near Manhattan and is a New York State public benefit corporation that runs the island. Haynes started working there in 2016, and was the second Black person to ho…

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