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When Grant Farred, a professor of Africana Studies at Cornell University, hit the news circuit in April, it wasn’t for any groundbreaking research or praise. Instead, it was because of his blatant disrespect of two graduate students, whom he referred to as “black b**es.”

According to a Cornell Sun, the Ivy League professor had invited the two students to attend a Feb. 5 and 6 conference at the University of Rochester entitled “Theorizing Black Studies: Thinking Black Intellectuals.”

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