When academic and writer Jason Arday became the youngest Black professor at Cambridge he fulfilled an ambition he’d set himself as a young man. But from the start, there were those who questioned his right to be there.
His work and his personal life came under intense scrutiny, at a time when DEI became a defining front in a transatlantic culture war. Last month he was found dead at his home. A month on, his story sits at the heart of a much wider question – how did DEI become such a divisive political battleground?
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