You then have a general counsel who turns a blind eye since 2008 of the racist behavior due to, who’s the comptroller of Fox News. How could you say in 2017 that there's only one qualified black person to sit on the board and the executive team? That's just impossible. On other allegations of racism at Fox Newsĭouglas Wigdor: "What we have here at the very highest level, where you have 37 board and executive team members, you only have one black person. And so ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ at that time had gone all white." They replaced me with a white colleague of mine, or actually they hired a new guy in. I have no control over these decisions that are being made, but I will continue to strive to give 1,000 percent and do my best. I just said, ‘Well, look, it's not my toy store. That's when I was the co-anchor of ‘Fox & Friends Weekend.’ And I remember a lot people were asking me, 'What happened?' And I said, ‘To be honest with you, I don't know.’ I was just told by Bill Shine that, 'CNN is catching up with us, we're gonna change the team.’ At the time, I didn't know where to go in terms of protesting it. In my situation, the prominent role that I once had was taken away towards the end of 2007, beginning of 2008. We're not able to go out and step out and have the same opportunities that some of our white colleagues have in order to grow with the company and get in more prominent roles. This kind of bias covers a lot of African-American male talent throughout the country. Kelly Wright: "It's one of marginalization and institutional racism. She also speaks with Wright's lawyer, Douglas Wigdor ( Interview Highlights Here & Now's Robin Young speaks with Kelly Wright ( the only male African-American anchor at Fox News, who is part of a class-action lawsuit alleging racial discrimination and harassment at the network. He's the latest shoe to fall in a sexual harassment scandal that also saw Chairman Roger Ailes and host Bill O'Reilly leave the network. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) This article is more than 5 years old.įox News is facing a new sexual harassment lawsuit, the same week that saw Fox News co-President Bill Shine resign. The plan at MSNBC is reportedly to fill the hour previously airing Craig Melvin Reports with a rotating lineup of anchors, until such a time as the network lands on a permanent replacement for the time slot.įor now, fans of Craig Melvin can be grateful that he's still going to be found on the small screen, if not on MSNBC in the mornings anymore.Fox News anchor Kelly Wright speaks to the media as he joins other current and former Fox employees at a press conference organized by his attorney Doug Wigdor on Apin New York.
In fact, viewers noticed when he was absent back in 2020 when he (as well as Al Roker, who has been open about some of his health struggles) tested positive for COVID and had to miss some work.Īs for what's in store next for Melvin and on MSNBC, Deadline reports that leaving his show will allow him to focus on NBC News' Today, and give him the opportunity to expand his role at that show. So, regular viewers of that show will already be familiar with him. He has actually been part of the Today team going back to 2016 as a news anchor and co-host, and was bumped up to help take Megyn Kelly's place in the third hour back in 2019, after the former Fox News anchor was fired.
Melvin was visibly even more emotional by the end of Andrea Mitchell's speech on behalf of herself and his team, and who can blame him? Those were some wonderful things to hear before signing off from his show for the last time, even though – as Mitchell mentioned – he's going to still be on TV every morning as an anchor of Today. Know that in your ten years as a host on MSNBC, you did some good. Each of us – this is your team now – is grateful for our time together. So we just want to say, you are loved by your team and they wanted me to say, because they're too shy to say it themselves, so this is from them: thank you, Craig, for your guidance, your wit, your drive every day to do right by the viewer. You have never forgotten, also, your South Carolina roots, as we know so well from all your coverage of so many stories. And before that, our long friendship when you were at NBC-WRC here in Washington. But I just want to tell you how much you mean to me, how much I've loved following in your footsteps every day. We'll be seeing you every morning on Today, anchoring Today, and on other NBC programs. Not so fast, Craig, because you have been my neighbor for all these years and I know you're not going far.