Activist Group Demands University Hire a Slave Descendant as Next President
On 12/29/20 at 1:51 PM EST
In a recent op-ed, activists at the University of Rhode Island demand that the school hire a slave descendant as its next president.
The piece was written by the Diversity Think Tank, a group founded this year by a professor at the university aiming to teach students to be "advocates of structural diversity in academic institutions," among other things. The university shared a statement with
Newsweek Tuesday saying the group has no affiliation with the school.
"Some Black, White and Latino students shall join in another class action lawsuit if the next URI President is not an African-American with an ancestry to slavery," reads the piece, published late last month in