Texas university president resigns in latest US race-related row

Demonstrators protest against a bill that would limit diversity, equity and inclusion programmes in public higher education in Columbus, Ohio [File: Samantha Hendrickson/The Associated Press]

The president of Texas A&M University has resigned her position after a public row over the hiring of a prominent Black professor to kick-start the school’s journalism programme.

The announcement on Friday represents the latest turn in what has emerged as a prominent conservative target in the so-called US “culture wars”: race and inclusivity programmes in schools and universities.