June 2, 2020
The Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground was featured in BU Today’s article “‘People Are Fired Up and Ready to Go’ — BU Students React to Protests.” Boston University students from around the world joined the HTC’s special edition of Coffee & Conversation in response to the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor:
On Monday afternoon, the Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground hosted an almost three-hour special edition of its Coffee and Conversation discussion series focusing on the protests. The event, held over Zoom, was open only to students; 300 attended from around the world. After the event, Stephanie Tavares (CAS’21), president of Umoja, BU’s black student union, said she was inspired by her fellow students and happy to be in that open-discussion type of setting again.
In addition to hosting this space for students, the HTC also issued a statement in response to the events of the past week (and generations prior). Read our statement here and the BU Today article here.