A former employee of an Ace Hardware store in Arlington has filed a million-dollar lawsuit against the company, alleging racial discrimination, according to court documents filed Tuesday in Dallas County.
Plaintiff Devondrick Hartsfield, who is Black, said he was terminated after reporting that his white manager had hung a black backpack from a noose in the store’s warehouse on Juneteenth in 2023, according to the lawsuit.
Juneteenth is a federal holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States…