In the early 1990s, Leonard Jeffries faced severe backlash after he denounced “rich Jews” and their involvement the African slave trade claimed there was “a conspiracy, planned and plotted and prog…
Hakeem Jeffries slams House Republicans for providing Fox News with Jan. 6 tapes: ‘Egregious security breach’
After he was elected to Congress in 2013, Jeffries told the Wall Street Journal that he only had a “vague recollection” of the controversy surrounding his uncle, Leonard Jeffries — a former college professor and department chair of Black Studies at the City University of New York. “Do you think that a ruling elite would promote individuals who would seek to dismantle their vice like grip on power?” Jeffries wrote in the piece, published in the Black Student Union’s newspaper, The Vanguard.
Jeffries’ office maintained on Wednesday that he does not agree with his uncle’s view and believes in “bringing communities together.”
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