Emory University has launched an investigation after a law professor used a racial slur during a class lecture.
The professor, addressing first-year students about a case stemming from the 1960’s civil rights movement in the South, allegedly used the “N-word” in a class on Aug. 23. The next day, the university said in a statement that the “offensive language was not part of the case law cited. The use of this — or any racial slur — in our community is unacceptable.”
The student newspaper, The Emory Wheel, reports the professor apologized to the class.
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