Lincoln University president on leave after suicide of former VP.

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A historically Black college and university is mourning the death of one of its former administrators, and some alumni say racism was at play and the institution’s president is to blame.

Antoinette “Bonnie” Candia-Bailey was the vice president of student affairs at Lincoln University of Missouri, an HBCU in Jefferson City. Candia-Bailey, who was Black, died by suicide on Monday. According to Sherman Bonds, the president of Lincoln’s National Alumni Association, she’d recently been fired.

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