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Racial tensions flared anew at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, last week after a Black fraternity invited controversial City University of New York professor Leonard Jeffries to speak on campus.
About 100 students participated in a protest march through the rain just before Jeffries's speech Thursday night, according to Dan Wetzel, editor-in-chief of the Amherst university daily newspaper, The Collegian.
Jeffries, whose appearance at Harvard prompted similar protests last fall, was invited to the Amherst campus by the fraternity Phi Beta Sigma.
Last spring, ethnic and racial tensions flared when Black student groups invited City University of New York Professor Leonard Jeffries to speak on campus.
Last winter, tensions flared between the Black Students Association and Hillel after a speech by Leonard Jeffries. In spring, The Crimson's coverage of minority affairs was criticized by several minority student organizations.