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Pro-Palestine students set up a liberated zone in Schenley Plaza on Tuesday.
Op-Ed | An Open Letter to Chancellor Joan Gabel
By Contributors April 25, 2024
Stephany Andrade: The Steve Jobs of education
By Thomas Riley, Opinions Editor • April 24, 2024

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Pro-Palestine students set up a liberated zone in Schenley Plaza on Tuesday.
Op-Ed | An Open Letter to Chancellor Joan Gabel
By Contributors April 25, 2024
Stephany Andrade: The Steve Jobs of education
By Thomas Riley, Opinions Editor • April 24, 2024

Photos: Blacks Lives Matter and Never Again protest

“What to we want? Gun control! When do we want it? Now!”

“No justice, no peace. No racist police.”

Each of those chants are common refrains heard in countless protests around the country. But Saturday, a group a high school students organized a protest — called #NEVER AGAIN X #BLACKLIVESMATTER — that was aimed at connecting police shootings to the gun control debate.

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A protestor leads chanting while marching down Fifth Avenue. (Photo by Thomas Yang | Visual Editor)
Demonstrators rally on the intersection between Fifth Avenue and Bigelow Boulevard before marching. (Photo by Thomas Yang | Visual Editor)
Marchers carry banners calling attention to police violence. (Photo by Thomas Yang | Visual Editor)
Protestors march down Forbes Avenue. (Photo by Thomas Yang | Visual Editor)
Protestors call for changes in gun control. (Photo by Thomas Yang | Visual Editor)
Demonstrators rally on the intersection between Forbes Avenue and Bigelow Boulevard. (Photo by Thomas Yang | Visual Editor)
A protestor leads chanting at the end of the march. (Photo by Thomas Yang | Visual Editor)
A man interrupts saying the protest is disruptive to working people. (Photo by Thomas Yang | Visual Editor)
(Photo by Thomas Yang | Visual Editor)
(Photo by Thomas Yang | Visual Editor)