Our Streets LUC demonstrates outside the campus of Loyola University Chicago on Aug. 22. The group has been fighting for the school to cut ties with the Chicago Police Department, among other reforms. (Courtesy of Our Streets LUC)
During the summer of 2020, millions of people across the country joined protests against racism and police violence, leading The New York Times to suggest in June that Black Lives Matter was perhaps the largest social movement in U.S. history.
At Catholic colleges across the U.S., students, faculty and staff have also called for their institutions to confront racism, by cutting ties with local police departments and reforming or divesting from their campus security forces.