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Smith College controversy highlights struggles colleges face in making racially equitable campuses CNN 3/3/2021 By Taylor Romine, CNN © EQRoy/Shutterstock View of the campus of Smith College, a private liberal arts women s college in Northampton, Massachusetts, part of the Seven Sisters. In the summer of 2018, Oumou Kanoute read a book and ate her lunch in a common room area of a Smith College residence hall that required keycard access. Since she was in a program teaching high school students over the summer, she was able to access it. That simple moment became a national story when campus police arrived a short while later, and the officer told her that an employee reported a Black person demonstrating suspicious behavior.

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