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Black Reporter Sues Paper Over Ban on Her Protest Coverage

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A Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter prohibited from covering the city's Black Lives Matter protests because of a tweet sued the paper on Tuesday.

Alexis Johnson, who is Black, filed the lawsuit in federal court in Pennsylvania alleging the Post-Gazette was engaging in racial discrimination and illegal retaliation.

The suit says Johnson's editors told her she could not pursue planned stories on jailed protesters or social-media efforts to raise bail funds because a May 31 tweet she sent about the different treatment Black and white people get for doing property damage was an unacceptable public display of bias. “The Johnson Tweet was intended to — and did — mock, ridicule and protest discrimination against African Americans by society in.

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