Stories from 5 Black women about racism at TCU show ‘hateful campus culture,’ suit says

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Five Black women say they experienced racism and degradation at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth over the past few years and that administrators ignored their reports of discrimination.

A lawsuit filed in January originally involved one Black woman as a plaintiff. As of June 15, four more Black women had joined the suit. The revised lawsuit was filed five days before dozens of protesters marched to TCU and called for the end of systemic racism at the university.

The current defendants of the federal lawsuit are: TCU; Diane Snow, former dean of the honors college; Rob Garnett, an associate dean of the honors college; Darron Turner, chief inclusion officer and Title IX director; Russell Mack, an instructor; Andrew Schoolmaster, former dean of TCU’s College of Liberal Arts; Leigh Holland, Title IX investigator; and Aaron Chimbel, the dean of the Jandoli School of Communication at St. Bonaventure University and a former TCU faculty member.