On Sept 17, students and staff gathered at the Davis Center circle to join UVM’s Latinx and Hispanic identity group Alianza Latinx, in raising their flag for Hispanic Heritage Month.
“We are here...
Lilly Page, Cynic News Reporter
• September 15, 2020
In the Student Government Association’s first meeting of the semester, several members pressed leadership on what the group is doing to address demands for racial justice reform from the campus community.
The...
As community members marched in black attire down Battery Street on their fifteenth consecutive day of protest last week, the mayor of Burlington spoke at an emergency meeting, unable to take action on...
Anna Morrill, Cynic News Reporter
• September 8, 2020
As students shuffled between classes on UVM’s Central Campus Sept. 3, a line of students dressed in black, carrying tombstones and a coffin began their somber march to the site of their “death.”
Late...
For 13 consecutive days, UVM students have blocked roads, marched down streets and disrupted downtown Burlington as part of a multi-day non-stop protest calling for the firing of three Burlington Police...
Emma Pinezich, News and Sports Editor
• September 3, 2020
Masses of UVM students joined community members as they marched down Church street wearing all black Wednesday night chanting ‘Black Lives Matter’ in the eighth day of protest calling for police reform...
The Black Lives Matter flag has been taken down from the Davis Center pole and has yet to be flown again, despite student requests.
Senior Ryan McCarthy, President of UVM’s Interfraternity Council,...
I did not realize it until last night, but I’ve been working toward this moment since the day I read the Cynic’s “Kake Walk” article last year.
On Thursday, April 13, I walked across...
The Black Lives Matter flag became an emblem whose impact radiated beyond UVM’s campus and across Vermont state boundaries.
It was a symbol: the student body of a predominantly white university...
Ice cream cones and voices were raised as Black Lives Matter supporters surrounded the front of Ben & Jerry’s on Church Street.
Members of Black Lives Matter Vermont met outside of the scoop shop...