Nexstar’s (Mission) WPIX (New York) is being accused of gender and racial discrimination according to a lawsuit filed by former entertainment Anchor/Reporter Ojinika Obiekwe.

On the station’s website it says, “Ojinika separated from PIX11 in 2022.”

In the lawsuit Oblekwe claims white male entertainment anchors at sister stations — and subsidiaries of parent company Nextar — KTLA in Los Angeles and WGN-TV in Chicago were paid more with less responsibilities and “more support and a more competent staff” than her.

“All that’s left for me to do at this point is pick cotton,” she said, reacting to “the disproportionate amount of work she was expected to do,” according to the lawsuit.

“My ancestors didn’t go through what they went through just for me to go through this,” and “I thought slavery was abolished,” the complaint says.

The filing claims Obiekwe’s news director told her “to desist because she was making people uncomfortable.”

In 2023, she was terminated due to alleged “insubordination,” and an alleged, “failure to perform job duties,” according to the suit.

H/T Page Six