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Arizona State University revokes job offer for new dean of journalism school after...

• https://www.dailymail.co, By TIM STICKINGS

Arizona State University has scrapped the appointment of a new journalism dean after a series of racism allegations against her, including a tweet in which she called some police officers 'good'. 

Sonya Forte Duhé was due to take over at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism on July 1 but the university provost has revoked the job offer. 

More than 4,000 people had signed a petition to block Duhé's appointment, which accused her of 'microaggressions' and 'a history of racist, homophobic and bodyshaming comments'. 

Student newspaper The State Press had raised a number of claims against her, including alleged comments about black students' hair, and said that some had found her tweets 'upsetting'. 

Duhé had responded to the George Floyd protests across the country by tweeting: 'For the family of George Floyd, the good police officers who keep us safe, my students, faculty and staff. 

'Praying for peace on this #BlackOutTuesday,' she said, referring to a social media campaign about the protests last week. 

Some students reportedly found the comment 'upsetting', amid a wave of anger at police brutality against African-Americans including Floyd.  

The comment prompted one former student of Duhé, Whitney Woods, to make a series of allegations about Duhé's behavior at Loyola University in New Orleans where she previously worked. 


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