Students are tweeting #BlackOnCampus to expose racism at US schools
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Your support makes all the difference.A string of racist incidents have caused pain and outcry amongst the black students and faculty members at the University of Missouri.
On Monday, President Tom Wolfe resigned after one student’s hunger strike, the Missouri Cougars football team’s boycott and the growing number of demonstrations across campus.
Now, with more threats to black students emerging on social media — one white student was arrested off-campus after making threats on YikYak promising to shoot every black student at the university— folks on Twitter are reminding the Missouri student body that they aren’t alone.