If a federal lawsuit over a white Emory University law professor’s suspension for using a racial epithet in class goes to trial, it will play out against the backdrop of historic protests demanding a reckoning over systemic racism.

That could ultimately be a factor in a judge’s or a jury’s eventual findings, said Tanya Washington Hicks, a law professor at Georgia State University.

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