Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination

Months after he was placed on leave last summer, Allen Knight, who served as head librarian at the Roxbury Branch of the Boston Public Library for over a decade, submitted a complaint to the state last month, alleging discriminatory actions against him by the BPL.

All full-time faculty of the Africana Studies Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston filed discrimination complaints through the state following years of alleged mistreatment from university administration.