Aided by social media, college students find new power in campus protests

Inspired by the marches in Ferguson (MO) and Black Lives Matter, students are taking to social media to question the institutions they once approached for answers. Calling for racial and social reforms on their campuses, they are borrowing tactics of the past — hunger strikes, sit-ins and lists of demands — and have found a collective voice to address their frustrations, hurt and rage. Their actions seem to have hit the mark.


Aided by social media, college students find new power in campus protests