A Black man who has worked as a custodian and laborer for the city of Morgantown, West Virginia, for 24 years without a promotion amid a racially hostile work environment is suing the city for discrimination after it allegedly breached a 2020 settlement agreement promising to treat him better.

Lamar Johnson, now 48, started working for the Morgantown public works department shortly after he left the Marine Corps in his early 20s. He was hired as a laborer/clerk, a low-paid job that encompasses various duties.

For Johnson, that has meant working as a janitor and a sort of gopher in the city garage, where over the years he was also tasked with making deliveries and managing inventory, while working among mostly white employees.

According to his lawsuit filed on Aug. 8 in the Circuit Court

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