Last fall, students at The University of Missouri-Columbia used social media and public protest to challenge their school’s racist campus culture. Their efforts led to their football team striking, their president resigning and an eventual $1 million initiative from their university aimed at staff diversity. Exactly one year after the Homecoming parade that sparked their movement, their example […]
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As student protests gain momentum, criticism of them is simultaneously bubbling up around the country.
A local NAACP chapter has announced plans to open up a discrimination hotline for Black students at the University of Missouri.
As the university is drowns in horrifying stories of racially-charged threats and defacement on campus, the Mizzou administration pushes to restore safety and stability back into the school as quickly as possible.
The situation that continues to unfold on the campus of the University of Missouri has intensified, with calls for violence against Black students and the…
Students Making Threats Towards Mizzou Identified, Professor Tries To Resigns After Shaming Students
As of Thursday morning, the threats and vandalism continued. Police were investigating an incident at the Columbia campus' Black culture center. Someone spray-painted over the word "black" on the sign to the culture center.
Young people from far and wide are hosting their own protests and writing letters of support to join the #Mizzou cause in schools like Smith, Cornell, Emory and Howard.
As I wrote in my last commentary, I think even the NFL could learn from the Mizzou players who stood up for what…
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A funeral was held for Tyshawn Lee, who was shot and killed in an alley while en route to his grandmother’s house on the South Side of Chicago.
Just one day after the resignations of both the president and school chancellor following protests against racial injustices on campus, verbal and social media threats have been made towards University of Missouri students.