60 Years Ago: Students Launched Sit-In Movement
February 6, 2020
Violent episodes were the exceptions and not the rule of the massively spreading Sit-in Movement.
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National Icon John Lewis Endorses Isadore Hall For Congress
August 3, 2016
State Senator Isadore Hall recently secured the sought-after support of Civil Rights icon and legendary U.S. Congressman, John Lewis, in his bid for California’s 44th Congressional District seat.
Black Lives Matter Los Angeles: Building Peace by Demanding Justice
July 27, 2016
Black Lives Matter LA stage two week sit in outside City Hall
Occidental College Students protest to end racial inequality on campus
November 26, 2015
Student protesters at Occidental College occupied a sit-in at the campus’ Arthur G. Coons Administrative Center from November 16 to the 20th, in response to the racial bias at the small college campus. “We decided to do the sit-in because we have seen that in the past seven years the president of our university has never been able to fulfill the lists of demands that students have put forth, especially in concern to Black students,” said Abilasha Bhola, a student organizer for the OXY United for Black Liberation. Bhola is talking about a list of demands minority students have