University of Chicago student group offers ‘Black Graduation’

University of Chicago graduate students this June can participate in a “Black graduation” according to an email obtained by The College Fix.

“Black Action in Public Policy Studies…is hosting a graduation ceremony for all University of Chicago Black graduate students” on June 1, the email stated. BAPP is a student group at the Harris School of Public Policy.

The email described the event as “an important capstone in the Black experience at the University of Chicago.” The Fix reached out to Christian Johns and Semeredin Kundin, two Harris students listed as event contacts, to ask who is funding black graduation, how it fits in with other graduation events and what the organizers would say to criticism that black graduation is akin to segregation.