Tag: black lives matter
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When causes and student governments clash
BY DUY HUYNH What would you want a portion of your tuition going toward? Thursday night’s concert or organizing a racial protest down Yonge St.? That’s one of numerous questions many at York University are pondering after news surfaced that the institution’s former Student Union VP Equity, Alexandria Williams, donated $7,500 to Black Lives Matter…
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Black Lives Matter: Toronto protests the Ferguson decision
VIDEO BY DARYLL HINVES On Nov. 25, the day after a grand jury decided not to press charges on Darren Wilson in the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown, hundreds of protestors rallied outside the University ave. courthouse in Toronto to show solidarity for the people of Ferguson and protest police brutality and…