Friends, students and colleagues praised Prof. Richard Iton as a dedicated friend and intellectual with a wry sense of humor who – had he been able to attend his own memorial service – would have...

African American studies Prof. Richard Iton, an expert on critical race theory, died Wednesday morning of natural causes. He was 51. Iton had privately battled leukemia for more than a decade, said...

Prof. Richard Iton has died, the Department of African American Studies announced this morning. He was 51. Iton had been privately battling leukemia for more than a decade, said Darlene Clark Hine,...