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June 15, 2020

JMU students lead silent march to turn up volume on calls to end systemic racism and remove confederates’ names from buildings

By Sukainah Abid-Kons, Contributor

In leading a protest march Friday that was both silent and loud, JMU students — joined by university employees and community members — called on the university to step up its response to systemic racism, starting with removing the names of confederate leaders from three of its buildings.

June 4, 2020

‘We are going to make a change.’ Efforts toward racial justice take shape across Harrisonburg

By Randi B. Hagi, Assistant Editor

A silent crowd marched through downtown Harrisonburg with a single voice on Monday. Hands pointed skyward in unison at a community prayer event earlier that evening. And hundreds more gathered Wednesday evening in an online town hall to hear calls to action. Racial justice advocates across Harrisonburg — all of different races, ethnicities and ages — have mobilized peacefully and en masse in the past week. They have employed a variety of tactics to protest systemic racism and police brutality, to pay respects to George Floyd and other black Americans killed by police and to call for change.