The Maryland Board of Public Works approved a $500,000 settlement Wednesday to resolve a federal lawsuit in which former University of Maryland employees alleged they were subjected to racial discrimination.
The lawsuits involved two African American men who worked in information technology at this university’s Center for Advanced Study of Language, a federally funded research center.
The men were terminated in 2018 after the research center underwent changes in sponsorship and restructured into what is now the Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security, according to court documents…