![]() ![]() “At around 8:01 PM, one of the participants started screen sharing a video of a dead ape lying on the ground covered in blood, with a white man towering over it. In another incident at Rutgers, the Delta Iota Chapter of Black fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha said an attack on its February 11 event by unknown individuals with racially insensitive usernames and their cameras turned off included graphic racist imagery and music. “Marginalized communities are too often forced to bear such hatred and navigate in spite of it, and moments like this cut and wound deeply,” he said. ![]() Molloy said the university doesn’t want to give bigoted individuals a platform by providing details on the incident, but acknowledges “the harm done to Black and LGBTQ members” of the community to “affirm their pain.” In a letter to the Rutgers community, Rutgers-New Brunswick Chancellor Christopher J. (Photo by Olivier DOULIERY / AFP) (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images) OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP/AFP via Getty Imagesīlack History Month this year is more than a trip down memory lane On May 25, 2020, Floyd, a 46-year-old black man suspected of passing a counterfeit $20 bill, died in Minneapolis after Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, pressed his knee to Floyd's neck for almost nine minutes. TOPSHOT - A demonstrator's silhouette is seen as they raise a fist during a protest against police brutality and the death of George Floyd, near the White House on Jin Washington, DC.
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