The president of Texas A&M University has resigned her position after a public row over the hiring of a prominent Black professor to kick-start the school’s journalism programme.The announcement on Friday represents the latest turn in what has emerged as a prominent conservative target in the so-called US “culture wars”: race and inclusivity programmes in schools and universities.Katherine Banks, the president of the public Texas university, said in her resignation letter that “negative press has become a distraction”, according to The Associated Press news agency.
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