University’s Black Power Matters event ‘Zoombombed’ with racial slurs
Stanislaus State launched an investigation over the weekend after a virtual event was infiltrated by anonymous users posting racist messages and obscene images.
The presentation, held Friday via Zoom, was titled “Black Power STILL Matters” and was the third annual Black Power Matters event hosted by the university’s Ethnic Studies Program meant to empower and uplift black voices. The event fell victim to a “Zoombombing” as things got started, said event speaker and Turlock Black Lives Matter co-founder Jaimee Ellison, which have become increasingly common throughout education centers as more classes, presentations and performances are pushed online due to the coronavirus pandemic.