Rice University Students Demand Black-Only Space on Campus

Rice University Students Demand Black-Only Space on Campus
A woman wearing a facemask holds a placard during a demonstration in Houston, Texas on May 30, 2020. Mark Felix/AFP/Getty Images
Bill Pan
Bill Pan
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A group of black students at Rice University in Houston, Texas is demanding administrators establish a racially segregated “Black House” on campus, as part of an “ongoing process” to “address the systemic oppression and inequity” in the university’s history.

“We demand that Rice invest in creating a non-residential Black House that has all the features of a residential college but is specifically made for Black students and Black organizations to congregate and hold events,” the group wrote in a list of demands (pdf), shared by Rice University Students Association on its official Facebook page.