WBZ filed a motion to dismiss most of former morning anchor Kate Merrill’s allegations that she was discriminated against , including the count against a Black colleague.

Merrill, who abruptly left her role at WBZ last year after nearly 20 years with the station, filed a federal lawsuit in August for $4 million. She claims she was discriminated against on the basis of her gender and her race and was defamed after she was accused of racist remarks and demoted.

The rift appears to have begun after Merrill privately corrected Jason Mikell’s on-air pronunciation of “Concord.” Mikell, a meteorologist who is Black, allegedly “immediately confronted Ms. Merrill, loudly yelling at her on the studio floor and asserting that she was being critical of him” in April 2024, the lawsuit said, and M

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