A white student who was expelled from Howard University’s law school is suing the historically Black university in Washington, D.C., alleging race discrimination and creating a hostile environment.
Feb. 28, 2023, 5:02 PM UTC
Frank Tramble, a vice president and the chief communications officer for Howard, said that, while the university “declines to comment on pending litigation substantively, the University is prepared to vigorously defend itself in this lawsuit” and that the claims “provide a one-sided and self-serving narrative of the events leading to the end of the student’s enrollment” at Howard.
The lawsuit claims Newman also compared himself in a Zoom chat box as a white student at a historically Black university to a Black student attending a predominantly white school, saying he felt “utterly disenfranchised.” After both incidents, many of Newman’s classmates contacted school administrators and sought his expulsion, some even complaining that the controversies he caused distracted from their studies, according to the suit.
Newman’s comments and backlash from students later prompted a one-on-one meeting with law school Dean Danielle Holley and Reggie McGahee, Howard’s global head of diversity recruiting. According to the suit, Holley suggested Newman transfer from the school and accused him of racially harassing students. On Jan.
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