Brown University music director claims racial bias in 2017 firing

PROVIDENCE — A former Brown University Orchestra music director who was let go in 2017 has filed a discrimination complaint against the university with the Rhode Island Commission for Human Rights.

Brandon Keith Brown, 39, who is living in Berlin, Germany, said he believes the university fired him because he is black.

“I felt like a token,” he said of his short time at the university. “I felt everything I had achieved before was not valued.”

Brown, who at the time of his firing told The Providence Journal that he was unable to comment, said he now wants his side of the story be heard.

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