A Georgia school board has voted to give $18,000 to a former superintendent accused of using racist language and discriminating against a black employee.
WSB-TV reports the Buford City School Board voted Monday to approve a final payment to former Superintendent Geye Hamby.
A race-discrimination lawsuit filed by a former educator last month year says Hamby repeatedly used slurs to refer to black workers and said he wanted to kill them. The plaintiff, 66-year-old Mary Ingram, says she was fired in 2017 and discriminated against for speaking up for the black community at board meetings.
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