What happened: Vincent Lloyd, professor director of Africana Studies at Villanova University and author of Break Every Yoke: Religion, Justice, and the Abolition of Prisons, wrote an essay about his experience as “a black professor trapped in anti-racist hell.”

• In the summer of 2022, Lloyd attempted to conduct a six-week seminar for gifted high-school students titled, “Race and the Limits of Law in America,” on behalf of the prestigious Telluride Association. Four weeks would be devoted to “anti-black racism,” with the other two focusing on “anti-immigrant and anti-indigenous racism.”

• Lloyd describes his anti-racist credentials as follows: “I am a black professor, I directed my university’s black-studies program, I lead anti-racism and transformative-justice workshops, and I have published books on anti-black racism and prison abolition. I live in a predominantly black neighborhood of Philadelphia, my daughter went to an Afrocentric school, and I am on the board of our local black cultural organization.”

• The racially diverse group of 12 students lived together and practiced “democratic self-governance” to create and live by their own rules during the course of the seminar.

[Oh, it went all Lord of the Flies from there. YOICKS. ~ Beege]