Former Black schools leader radio interview brings focus on race issues in Green Bay

When an Atlanta radio host referred to the Wisconsin city of Green Bay as “about as lily white as I have ever seen," Claude Tiller Jr. responded: “The lily on top of the lily.” The back and forth was part of a Feb. 6 radio interview that included blunt comments on race that led Tiller, the first Black superintendent for Green Bay's school district, to resign on Saturday. Tiller's departure, after less than nine months on the job, followed a closed-door meeting with school board members.