Professor Settles Suit Over Article Defending Accused Racist

Music theory professor Timothy L. Jackson agreed to end his free speech case against the University of North Texas over his defense of a music theorist charged with racism.

Jackson and the university filed a joint stipulation Wednesday requesting the lawsuit be dismissed with prejudice, according to a filing in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. UNT’s board of regents indefinitely suspended Jackson from his lead editor position at the Journal of Schenkerian Studies after he published an article refuting arguments from a Black professor claiming music theorist Heinrich Schenker was ...