Black Woman Awarded $1M After Oregon Gas Station Refused Her Service

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Black Woman Awarded $1M After Oregon Gas Station Refused Her Service

Nationwide -- Rose Wakefield, a 63-year-old African American woman from Portland, Oregon, has been awarded $1 million after the jury found a gas station employee discriminated against her when he refused to pump gas for her and told her, "I don't serve Black people."On March 12, 2020, Wakefield stopped for gas at Jacksons Food Stores

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