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The U.S. Supreme Court last week threw out a federal appeals court ruling in favor of Leonard Jeffries Jr., a professor at the City College of New York who was demoted after making a racially inflammatory speech.

The High Court on Nov. 14 ordered the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to re-examine its April 1994 ruling that college officials had violated Mr. Jeffries's free-speech rights.

Speaking at a 1991 black arts festival, Mr. Jeffries said negative portrayals of African-Americans in the media were the result of...

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