University of Michigan drops investigation into professor for showing movie with blackface | The College Fix
The University of Michigan said it will not formally investigate Professor Bright Sheng for showing a 1965 movie that contained a white actor wearing makeup to have a darker skin tone.
University officials were considering opening a formal investigation into Professor Sheng for his classroom showing of Othello, but they have determined that it will not do so after reviewing the complaints against him, according to a free-speech group.
While it remains discouraging that Sheng has stepped away from teaching this semester, Michigan s decision not to launch a formal investigation into a professor s course content was the right one to make, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education said in an October 19 update. It spoke to Sheng s attorney who confirmed there would not be a formal investigation