A Black Man Was Refused Champagne in First Class, Then One Phone Call Got the Crew Fired Before Landing

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“Excuse me, ma’am. I think you missed my row.” Prestige Atlantic Flight 2261, thirty thousand feet above Georgia. Diane Ashford had just poured Dom Pérignon for every first-class passenger except the only Black man in the cabin. She stopped, set the bottle down hard. “Champagne is for passengers who belong here, not freeloaders who scam […]