- G/O Media fired LifeHacker travel writer Imani Bashir for leaving the country, according to the company's union.
- Bashir has lived in four different countries in the last decade and has written for multiple news sources about frequently working abroad, including The New York Times.
- Bashir, who the union said was the only Black staff member at G/O's LifeHacker, wrote in The New York Times in May that part of why she traveled and often lived abroad was to protect her 3-year-old son from American police violence.
- G/O Media didn't immediately respond to Business Insider's request for additional comment.
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G/O Media just fired a Black Muslim travel writer, the only Black employee for its LifeHacker website, for leaving the country, its union said.
The media company, owned by private equity firm Great Hill Partners, told the writer, Imani Bashir, that her contract had been terminated because it "cannot support international employment," according to the company's union.
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