Photos: Black Student Union, supporters ‘take a knee’

About 50 Fort Lewis College students and faculty took part in the “Why we take a knee” rally on Friday afternoon at Clock Tower on campus. The “knee-in” was sponsored by the college’s Black Student Union and was held to discuss “the real reasons we take a knee. We will not stand for the injustices in our society including school pushout, police brutality, and sexual predators.”

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About 50 Fort Lewis College students and faculty took part in the “Why we take a knee” rally on Friday afternoon at Clock Tower on campus. The “knee-in” was sponsored by the college’s Black Student Union and was held to discuss “the real reasons we take a knee. We will not stand for the injustices in our society including school pushout, police brutality, and sexual predators.”

Jerry McBride/Durango Herald

Kaidee Akullo, president of the Fort Lewis College Black Student Union, speaks during the “Why we take a knee” rally on Friday afternoon at Clock Tower on campus. “We want to raise awareness to issues of school push-out, police brutality and sexual predators that are still happening and are still important,” Akullo said.

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