Illinois students condemn Jeff Sessions talk during Black History Month

Published January 28, 2022 7:36pm ET



The student government at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, condemned a planned February lecture by former Attorney General Jeff Sessions as disrespectful to Black History Month and the university’s black community.

The lecture by the former Trump administration official and Republican senator from Alabama will be hosted by the campus College Republicans in conjunction with the Young America’s Foundation and is slated to be the first campus lecture by a conservative speaker in four years.

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