17. Black Students Are Leading The Activism Movement on College Campuses

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We spoke with Shay and Leo, who are two students fighting the good fight on their PWI, Bay Area college campuses. They detail the militarization of their campuses, the fight to own Black spaces on campuses, and how they don’t feel safe on the college grounds they pay tuition to be on. #blackactivismoncampus

If you haven’t been on a college campus in some time, this episode lends itself as a guide to the many obstacles Black students and faculty face, even at America’s more progressive universities. The Black Campus Movement of the 1960’s rendered as a catalyst of protests to disrupt the tradition of inequities in higher education and thus created the pathway to Black Student Unions and African American studies throughout the country. This legacy has been transformative in academia and in the presence of Black life on campus however; as our guests on this episode discuss, while there have been many triumphs in the Black plight on college campuses, there is still a long way to go.

Follow Shay on IG @yg_harrison
Learn more about BASE @ USF - Black Achievement Success and Engagement - https://www.usfca.edu/academics/special-programs/black-achievement-success-engagement

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Learn more about Leo's org and get involved with Black Collectivism for Students - www.blackcs.org