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Dr. Leonard Jeffries Jr. was replaced last Monday as chair of the Black studies department at the City University of New York (CUNY) by a unanimous vote of the university's board of trustees.
Jeffries shot back with a promise to sue the university and insisted that the faculty in the Black studies department--whom he handpicked during his 19 years as chair--would defy the appointment, The New York Times reported last week.
Jeffries still retains his tenured position in the CUNY Black studies department, also called Africana.
Dr. Edmund W. Gordon, who will take over from Jeffries on July 1, is a former chair of Yale University's African-American studies department. Gordon is expected to reshape the CUNY program and to hire new faculty.
But Jeffries told The Times the moves to oust him were "a conspiracy against the curriculum of inclusion."