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Rice University students demand black-only housing units and removal of founder’s statue in response to George Floyd’s death

By Andrew Mark Miller
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Rice University students demand black-only housing units and removal of founder’s statue in response to George Floyd’s death

Students at Rice University in Texas are pushing the school to fund a “non-residential Black house” on campus, as well as remove a statue of the school’s founder.

The call for a “Black House” on campus was lodged in a social media post on the Facebook page of Rice’s official Graduate Student Association, according to Fox News.

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