Approximately fifty students marched from a Quarry Plaza rally to Kerr Hall.
On Wednesday, February 24, scores of students rallied in Quarry Plaza to express their outrage at racially-themed parties at two UC campuses in held earlier in the month.
Organizers of the rally, members of the African/Black Student Alliance, marched fifty protestors to Kerr Hall, where Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs came out to hear and respond to student’s grievances.
Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, Felicia McGinty (left), watches the student demonstration on the Kerr Hall Plaza
In their show of solidarity with the Black students across the UC system, members of ABSA described the “covert racism” they experience at UCSC in the forms of racial humor published in Fish Rap Live!, the failure to recruit and retain Black staff and faculty, and the lack of an African American Studies program.
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