Bon Appétit's editor-in-chief just resigned — but staffers of color say there's a 'toxic' culture of microaggressions and exclusion that runs far deeper than one man

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• Business Insider spoke to 14 current and former contributors or employees at Bon Appétit. All identify as people of color.
• The insiders at Condé Nast's prestigious food outlet claimed that non-white employees are socially slighted and unable to access the same professional networks as their white peers.
• The company regularly features people of color in their videos. However, few of them have the lucrative contracts that their white peers have for appearing in videos.
• Several said Adam Rapoport, who stepped down as editor-in-chief on Monday, and Matt Duckor, who heads video for Condé Nast brands including Bon Appétit, refused to make Bon Appétit content more diverse.
• A Condé Nast representative told Business Insider that the company strives to make its workplace "diverse, inclusive and equitable."
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Days after former Bon Appétit editor-in-chief Adam Rapoport wrote in a May 31 newsletter that "food is inherently political," he again denied a pay raise for the only Black woman on the magazine's staff. 

Ryan Walker-Hartshorn, who worked as Rapoport's assistant for the past two years and nine months, had a 24-minute phone call with Rapoport on June 4. She explained to her then-boss why she deserved a raise, or at the very least, a two-week vacation.

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