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Panelists at a recent Harvard Foundation program entitled Challenges to Race Relations in Today's Ivy League and Public Colleges indicated that Professor Leonard Jeffries and Professor Michael Levin (a Jewish professor also on the CUNY faculty who has written extensively and promoted the belief that "Blacks are innately inferior...
Last October, the CUNY board of trustees came under fire from scholars and state officials when it voted to extend Jeffries tenure as chair until the end of June in an effort to assuage racial tensions on campus.
Jeffries' visit to Harvard in February prompted a campus coalition of minority groups to protest the invitation. Jeffries has made controversial comments about Black "sun people" and white "ice people" as well as theorized about Jewish conspiracies to subjugate Blacks.
While CUNY stripped Jeffries of his chair, the Manhattan district attorney last week stopped the investigation of a complaint filed by a Crimson editor in October which claimed that Jeffries threatened the student's life.
Morgan said that CUNY's removal of Jeffries as Black studies chair was a "step in the right direction," but he also insisted that Jeffries also be stopped from teaching at the university.