‘It Took Me by Surprise’: Academic Critical of BLM Movement Had Article on Her Paper Removed

Thousands of people take part in a demonstration to defund the police in support of Black Lives Matter, in Toronto on June 19, 2020. The Canadian Press/Nathan Denette

Sonia Orlu never expected that an article about her recent paper on the Black Lives Matter movement would be promptly deleted by a Vancouver radio station after it was published following an interview with the station.

But that’s what happened on March 5 to the PhD candidate in political science at Simon Fraser University and author of the paper “Why I do not support the Black Lives Matter movement.”