resigns amid allegations

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/06/uk/black-professor-cambridge-plagiarism-resigns-intl

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/books/review/cambridge-jason-arday-resignation-investigation.html

Been following.

@Chrissy

This tells the story:

Accusations of plagiarism in Arday's work were first voiced by Nathan Cofnas - a US researcher and self-defined "race realist", whose role at a Cambridge college was terminated after backlash to his view that under a true meritocracy black people would "disappear from almost all high-profile positions outside of sports and entertainment".

@trev114

My God! An Academic Pete Hegseth that

Young black men of prominence are having a hard time holding on to their positions.

There is a case in Stockbridge, Georgia, where the 22-year-old Mayor, Jayden Williams, is being accused of impropriety, including sexual misconduct.

Stockbridge council to hold public hearing on investigation into 22-year-old mayor