About two dozen students in the Black Student Alliance recently met with top university officials to present a document—the Black Culture Initiative—which they say is aimed at encouraging reform at the private research school in Durham, North Carolina.
Included in the group’s demands is the establishment of an endowment to support cultural events and programming, academic enrichment efforts and personal and professional development. They are also demanding that the university’s Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture, which is currently undergoing renovations, be returned to its original location after the renovations are completed.
