After more than six years as WISH-TV ‘s chief meteorologist, Ashley Brown Elliott says she was fired last week after questioning the locally owned TV station’s treatment of Black women employees.
Brown Elliott, who joined WISH in December 2018 after more than a decade as a meteorologist at other outlets, posted on social media Thursday that she took offense when station management asked her to stop wearing certain colors while on air. Other Black employees allegedly were asked to remove their dreadlocks or told they were “too curvy,” according to Brown Elliott.
The company has fired eight Black women over the past two years, Brown Elliott said…