‘A Bunch of Monkeys’: White Manager Harassed Black Worker at Iowa Storage Company, Told Him His Locs Looked Like ‘Worms.’ Now Company Must Pay
A Black man fired by a Des Moines, Iowa, storage systems manufacturing business in 2022 has won a verdict of $205,000 after a Polk County jury found the company and one of its managers racially harassed and then retaliated against him for complaining about a hostile work environment. Devin Ellis started working in December 2021…
