What should have been a simple Friendsgiving dinner for nine women in Chesapeake, Virginia spiraled into what they describe as a blatant act of racial discrimination, one that left them humiliated, angry, and determined to seek justice.
The group had gathered at Cork and Bull Chophouse on Nov. 6, expecting good food and fellowship. Instead, they say they were ordered out of the restaurant moments after an unrelated fistfight broke out between two other Black women across the room.
The fight, captured on video and widely circulated online, involved only those two individuals, both of whom left the building before police arrived…