Racism Charged

Lawyers for a Brown University police supervisor who is suing Brown for racial discrimination filed an amended complaint last week at the U.S. District Court in Providence.

The supervisor, George Black, has charged that he was assigned to undesirable positions in the security department because of "racial prejudice."

His new complaint maintains that Brown "has engaged in and continues to engage in conduct designed to harrass the plaintiff, subject him to ridicule and effectively make his job unappealing and unduly stressful."

Black's initial complaint was thrown out of court last January by Judge Brace Selya, who called it "little more than a litany of unsupported conclusions and wholly subjective characterizations."

At that time, Black was given 60 days to prepare a new version.

Hearings on the case are expected to begin next month. The Brown Daily Herald