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In 2020, over 1000 Princeton community members gathered outside FitzRandolph gate to protest the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. Through the succeeding months, debates about systemic racism on campus continued. In 2021, The Daily Princetonian published the Black Futures Project, including a piece by the Editorial Board calling on students to confront racism on Princeton's campus. More than two and a half years after the 2020 protest, on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2023, over 70 Princeton community members held a march in the wake of the killing of Tyre Nichols by Memphis Police.
Princeton Mutual Aid organized the protest in Palmer Square, which involved speeches and a march. Organizer Fatima Mughal said that the goal was to “create a space for the community to come together to grieve, honor the life of Tyre Nichols, and be a space for solidarity.” Rev. Lukata Mjumbe, pastor of Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church, however, expressed his frustration, saying that he wouldn’t march because “We’ve done this over and over and over again …we have to do something different.” The event ended with calls for action, with Princeton lecturer Anastasia Mann saying, “The only thing that fixes those [structural problems] or begins to move the needle on those is when people come together around those convictions.”
Protests like these have occurred around the country since the body cam footage of Nichols' death was released on Jan. 27.
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Analysis by Olivia Chen
SOFIA PAUCA ’21 DISCUSSES DOCUMENTARY AT WINTERSESSION SCREENING: On Saturday, Jan. 28, recent University alumna Sofia Pauca ’21 screened her 2022 film highlighting the experiences of those living with developmental disabilities as part of the 2023 Wintersession. The film, “Growing Together: A Film on Family & Disability,” documents the journeys of six families of individuals with developmental disabilities in the United States and Peru, including Pauca’s own brother Victor.
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