As high school seniors, Meggie Noel and Kylie Webster-Cazeau launched a campaign last January that placed the racism faced by black students at Boston Latin School in the spotlight. Webster-Cazeau, now a freshman at Temple University, was featured in the university publication The Temple News this week, and she reflected on the experiences that led to the #BlackatBLS campaign. “It got really graphic,” Webster-Cazeau said of the racism she and fellow black BLS students encountered. She and Noel belonged to the school’s organization Black Leaders Aspiring for Change and Knowledge, or BLS BLACK, which Noel presided over. “Students telling other students, ‘Go back to Africa,’ or ‘We should have never bought you’ or students telling other students that if they were at the protests, they would’ve shot them,” she said.

Source: Huffington Post March 28, 2017 22:41 UTC