{"id":146391,"date":"2026-02-26T18:44:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T18:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/146391\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T18:44:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T18:44:29","slug":"hunter-college-professor-placed-on-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/146391\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter College professor placed on leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hunter College says a professor has been put on leave pending an investigation into comments she made on a Zoom call.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to Black students, Allyson Friedman said, \u201cThey\u2019re too dumb to know they\u2019re in a bad school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApparently Martin Luther King said it: if you train a Black person well enough, they\u2019ll know to use the back. You don\u2019t have to tell them anymore,\u201d Friedman continued.<\/p>\n<p>Friedman made the remarks earlier this month during a community education council meeting about a plan to close or relocate several schools on Manhattan\u2019s West Side.<\/p>\n<p>Nancy Cantor, president of Hunter College, called the remarks \u201cabhorrent\u201d and said counseling is available for any student or staff member who may need it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hunter College says a professor has been put on leave pending an investigation into comments she made on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[203,25,67,75,84,83,9,24,12,63,380,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-146391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-app-education","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-education","11":"tag-manhattan","12":"tag-manhattan-headlines","13":"tag-manhattan-news","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","19":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}