A lecturer accused of posting antisemitic messages on Facebook has been suspended from the University of Essex.
Other since-deleted posts from Ali’s account appeared to deny the Holocaust, while one shared image from a far-right Nazi-apologist website claimed one of the French police officers shot dead in the 2015 Paris terrorist attacks was “a Mossad agent live and well in Buenos Aires … a crypto-Jew in the service of Israeli intelligence”. More...

Malcolm X became internationally famous the day after President John F Kennedy was assassinated. Asked to comment, Malcolm calmly informed US TV reporters that he was not at all surprised that “the chickens were coming home to roost”. It was November 1963 and he was by then a leading member of the Nation of Islam, a black separatist organisation. More...

The government should judge university teaching on the basis of how it promotes equality and diversity. More...

Black female professors have to overcome bullying, stereotyping and institutional neglect in order to win promotion, according to a damning new report of their experiences working at British universities. More...

A report sheds light on the ways black female academics are held back in their careers. Here three share their stories. More...