Their demands include a new multicultural center and “emergency scholarships” for black students.
Via Campus Reform:
Members of the University of Michigan Black Student Union (BSU) are calling for “physical action” against the school if it does not meet their list of seven demands in seven days.
The members of the group spoke on the steps of Hill Auditorium yesterday after a lecture by actor Harry Belafonte, who called for combating societal problems and compared the U.S. prison system to the Ku Klux Klan.
The students emphasized the lack of the diversity and inclusion on campus to a crowd of 75 students, according to MLive. They even went so far as to compare their campaign to the efforts of the Black Action Movement of 1970, which lead to a temporary shutdown of the university’s campus.
Senior Erick Gavin read the group’s seven demands, which included increasing the BSU budget, establishing housing on school’s central campus “for those of lower-socio-economic status,” and a new multicultural center on campus.