#StudentBlackOut demonstrations planned from Yale to MizzouDay of action follows protests over racism issues at University of MissouriStudents demand diversity training,resignations and more faculty of color 5.00pm GMTWe just learned students are protesting at the University of Pittsburgh nowadays, beginning at 4pm ET. We’re also expecting demonstrations from students at Emory University, and Morehouse and Spelman College around 6pm ET.
#StudentBlackOut #nationalblackout PGH STUDENTS IN SOLIDARITY pic.twitter.com/qMRHKKRHAA 4.41pm GMTThere are also calls for protests in Amherst,Boston and Worcester Massachusetts, at Stanford University in California, or Rutgers University in New Jersey. We also know at least one Canadian school,the University of Toronto, has issued a set of demands, or asking administrators to hire more black faculty,provide better mental health services to students of color and to divest from the American for-profit prison industry (a demand suggested by the Black Liberation Collective). Anti-blackness is systemic. And anti-blackness is a choice. In order to address anti-blackness, we must all become anti-racist in our actions.”#StudentBlackOut #BlackonCampusUofT pic.twitter.com/S3OjKcHU3sContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com