Selected additional contextualized details:
1.  "...This former dean, [sic] who had degrees in math and nuclear physics...had a suggestion: Perhaps we can implement The Algebra Project, the brainchild of Robert Moses, an African-American Harvard-trained civil rights activist...Yet a white professor refused the initiative—and admitted to the dean that the reason was because its proponent was black."
1.1. This Division Chair, Derek Mpinga, suffered additional indignities e.g.:
1.1.i.  Having "Hey nigger," yelled at him at an LCC parking lot,
1.1.ii.  Having the word Nigger scratched on his vehicle while at VRC,
1.1.iii.  While Lane's then and current president, Mary Spilde, did not lift a finger to help etc.
2.  Regarding professors, after serving as an adjunct instructor at LCC, the employment recommendation for DeLeesa Meashintubby (now Executive Director  Volunteers In Medicine) was rescinded with Spilde's concurrence. Maybe things will improve when LCC gets a new president next year.