Kate Merrill, the former WBZ anchor who claims she was discriminated against because she is white , acknowledged her lawsuit against her old employer publicly for the first time Wednesday.

“For more than two decades, I proudly shared the stories of Boston as a journalist at WBZ-TV. I poured my heart into this work because I believe deeply in the power of journalism to inform, connect, and uplift a community I love,” Merrill wrote on her public Facebook account .

Merrill filed a federal lawsuit earlier this month, a year after she abruptly left her anchor role shortly after her 20-year anniversary at WBZ. She’s suing for $4 million, claiming she was discriminated against on the basis of her gender and her race.

The defendants named in the suit include Jason Mikell, who was a newly

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