Harvard Canceled its Best Black Professor. Why? (mini-doc)

support us on substack: other baller mini docs: Roland Fryer was an unlikely Harvard superstar. Abandoned by his mom at birth and raised by an alcoholic dad, Fryer became the youngest black professor to ever secure tenure at Harvard and won the prestigious John Bates Clark Medal, the prize for the best economist under 40 in the world. Fryer’s research routinely upended the woke orthodoxies dominating academia. But not on purpose; Fryer isn’t partisan. He’s only interested in digging up truth, no matter what it is. Truth, he says, is the key tool for improving the lives of black boys and girls. Then, in 2018, Fryer’s career was suddenly cut short. Harvard had an official line on why: he’d sexually harassed his staff. Fryer was banned from campus and his multi-million dollar lab was shut down. The few legacy media outlets that did cover the case, such as the New York Times, dutifully repeated the university’s narrative: this punishment was overdue MeToo justice. No, it wasn’t. Drawing on previously unreported documents and interviews with dozens of Fryer’s friends and colleagues, we reveal his cancellation for what it was: an ideological purge. CREDITS: Interviewees: Glenn Loury Tanaya Devi Alex Bell Stuart Taylor Animation: Lex Villena NODEHAUS Media Senior Creative: Josh Oldham Creative Consultant: Erin O’Connor Director of Photography: Dan Quattro Music: Sally and Jase -- Reggie Gordon Hell Loose -- SLMN In My Math -- Mos Dub Best Believe -- P Rock Visual Audio -- Insight Blood of the Goat -- A Bronson No Days Off -- Armand Hammer Blowser -- SLMN Broken Past -- SLMN You Know what I mean -- Jake One Cazi in lubire -- Morloc Director and Host: Rob Montz