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Author's Book Deal in Jeopardy After Reporting Black Metro Worker For Eating on Train

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May 14, 2019
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Author Natasha Tynes is under fire after reporting a Black Metro worker for eating on the train. Tynes, a Jordanian American writer, may lose her book deal, publisher California Coldblood said. Tynes met swift backlash after she tweeted a photo of a Black female Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) employee in uniform eating on the Red…

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