University of Missouri

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.

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.

If you read anything today, it should definitely be these tweets.

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.

University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe on Sunday acknowledged problems with racism on campus after Black football players vowed to stop playing until he "resigns."

Head's statement on Facebook was so well received that it has now been shared almost 1,200 times.