MY EXPERIENCE OF ANTI-BLACK RACISM AT YORK UNIVERSITY – Teaching while Black

While President Rhonda Lenton and senior administrators, Lisa Phillips and others, claim to be making structural changes with respect to anti-Black racism at York University, they have attempted to fire Professor Aimé Avolonto, who teaches in the Department of French Studies, Glendon College. Professor Avolonto, who is Black and an Associate Professor, originally asked for an investigation into anti-black racism in his department. In 2017, he wrote to then-Provost, Rhonda Lenton. However, the victim of racism, has now become the target of York University’s President and senior administration. They have tried to suppress, deny, ignore and dismiss his claims without a fair or proper investigation, going so far at to attempt to fire him. Read Professor Avolonto’s allegations in his Letter from a Black colleague.

https://www.teachingwhileblack.ca/post/letter-from-a-black-colleague