Community News

6/11/2020

Dear FSU Members,

Below is a letter from UMB Professor Reyes Coll-Tellechea regarding an important issue that many of you may have seen in the Boston Globe.  She is looking for signatures/support and we thought this might interest many of you.

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Colleague, below is a letter addressed to Milton Public Schools Board for your review and consideration

6/9/2020

Dear FSU Members,

The attached is a statement from the Executive Council of UMass Boston’s Black Faculty, Staff, and Student Association regarding the recent violence against African Americans and structural racism.

6/8/2020

Dear FSU Members,

6/8/2020

Greetings, Colleagues.

6/4/2020

Dear FSU Members,

The following letter was sent to Interim Chancellor Newman last night from five campus unions.

Dear Chancellor Newman,

It has come to our attention that the UMB campus was used as a staging area by city and state police forces yesterday (6/2), and then again today (6/3), in advance of area Black Lives Matter protests.  We have also learned that UMass Boston police were sent to police these protests.

Here is a first-hand account of what took place at the end of the Black Lives Matter protest on June 2: