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Jilly_in_VA

(9,854 posts)
Wed Jul 7, 2021, 10:35 AM Jul 2021

Former Liberty University employee files discrimination lawsuit

A former Liberty University employee has filed a federal lawsuit, claiming he was discriminated against by the university based on race under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Kelvin Edwards, who played football for Liberty in the 1980s and then played for the NFL, says the university hired him in July 2020 as Executive Vice President of Management Efficiencies and Diversity. At the time, he owned a car dealership in Texas, and the suit claims the university acknowledged he would be uprooting his family and taking a risk by moving, and so promised him at least ten years of employment.

The suit claims he was offered a $275,000 annual salary, monthly vehicle allowance and the promise of a house built for his family.

Shortly after he started his job, the school’s president, Jerry Falwell, Jr., left and was replaced by Acting President Jerry Prevo, who, according to the suit, demoted Edwards and then fired him in October 2020.

https://www.whsv.com/2021/07/06/former-liberty-university-employee-files-discrimination-lawsuit/
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These guys again. It could get ugly for them. Good.

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Former Liberty University employee files discrimination lawsuit (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Jul 2021 OP
Make a deal with the Devil, sometimes you get burned. bottomofthehill Jul 2021 #1
Did he have any of this in writing? ShazzieB Jul 2021 #2
Read the rest of the article Jilly_in_VA Jul 2021 #3

Jilly_in_VA

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3. Read the rest of the article
Wed Jul 7, 2021, 02:23 PM
Jul 2021

And the deposition, if you can get to scribd and understand the legalese. I suspect he's got something on the bastards. I hope so.

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