Word: blsa
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...from Friday through yesterday afternoon, was open to Harvard students and the general public. It was intended to inform attendees of issues affecting the Black community, according to the BLSA’s Web site. Brigid K. Ndege ’10, a Harvard Law School student and BLSA member, said she attended the event to learn about topics that aren’t brought up on a daily basis and also to interact with a larger community. Similarly, freelance business consultant Melanie Morris, a Boston resident, said she was there to network and to meet people of color...
...That period saw the rise of Kenyatta, who entered the Law School in 1980. An unusual student and tireless activist by most accounts, Kenyatta took the helm of the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) at the end of his second year and injected a social and political bent into the 15-year-old organization...
...Muhammad often told us that he had been around the block many times before,” said Kimberle W. Crenshaw, then a member of the BLSA and now a law professor at University of California at Los Angeles...
...BLSA’s first meetings of the year, “there were African American students who had never been to a BLSA meeting who showed up asking, ‘What’s going on because there were people at my workplace calling me a racist,’” Tyler said...
...students, frustrated with the administration, turned their energy toward direct action under the aegis of the Third World Coalition, an umbrella organization which included groups such as the BLSA and the Arab Students Association...