( October 7, 2025, 8:22 AM EDT) -- CINCINNATI — A Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel found that two African-American employees of a Tennessee trucking company who alleged that they were treated unfairly, called names and berated by supervisors because of their race provided evidence of “severe or pervasive” racial harassment and that the company failed to provide “an affirmative defense” to liability in reversing and remanding a federal judge’s opinion that granted summary judgment to the company on a claim that it created a hostile work environment pursuant to federal and state laws....