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Jacob Clayton, Black Male Initiative President, speaks in front of 200 attendees at the Black Lives Matter Tribute Concert on Wednesday in Altgeld Hall.
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Black Lives Tribute fuses arts, activism Jay Ibarra & Samantha Keck Staff writers
DeKalb | The students in the Black Lives Matter Tribute Concert used artistic performances to persuade the NIU community to put a stop to racial injustice Wednesday. The concept for the Black Lives Matter Tribute Concert was inspired by racial injustices that have occurred at NIU, said Linnea Norwood, senior dance major and show choreographer. “... It’s fighting against racism. It’s fighting against the systems of oppression that [continue] to bring us down, it’s people. It’s to show that black lives matter as well,” said Randiss Hopkins, senior jazz piano major and lead coordinator for the concert. The concert featured students carrying out the Black Lives Matter movement’s values through original pieces in song, dance and poetry. The performances revisited decades of culture, performing both original and popular works. Hopkins said performers practiced for more than a month for the show. He said he was inspired by the relevancy of the Black Lives Matter movement to create this tribute show for the community. “What we noticed is that no matter how you look, no matter what race you are, no matter what your major was, one thing that we all had in common was, is that we
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To view photos from the Black Lives Matters Tribute Concert, go to bit.ly/1X9PuEx. all struggled in life in some way, no matter where we were from,” Hopkins said. Reggie Bates, Student Association Vice President, said the show’s participants, which were made up of individuals of different backgrounds, constantly discussed how they were treated unfairly and how the show would impact the audience. Bates said he was able to brush off a situation where DeKalb Police immediately asked him and his fraternity brothers if they had guns, but a serious matter occurred when one of his Black Male Initiative brothers, former NIU student Quintonio LeGrier, 19, was shot six times by a Chicago police officer who was responding to a 911 dispatch call of domestic disturbance on Dec. 26. “That was someone who I personally recruited to be a member for Black Male Initiative, someone who I had every day interactions with, as we give our yearly message of ‘Everyone be safe and come back next semester.’ I was at his funeral before the semester started,” Bates said.