African-American Harvard students are holding their own graduation ceremony this year “to give voice to the voiceless,” as the Harvard Black Graduate Student Alliance president Michael Huggins told Boston.com. This is the kind of racial self-affirming and self-protecting practice that has been spreading across U.S. campuses in response to microaggressions and inflammatory racist incidents. These activities seem to acknowledge that these black students are graduating into workforces and societies that are far more unwelcoming than the ones that existed when they entered college.
[For more of this story, written by Brentin Mock, go to https://www.citylab.com/design...he-trump-era/527316/]
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