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Students respond to #BBMSU Twitter trend

November 20, 2013

MSU’s black community started tweeting out various issues about what it’s like being a black student this week following a similar movement at University of Michigan.

Using the hashtag #BBMSU, which translates to “Being black at Michigan State University,” students tweeted about a range of experiences from problems with university policies to the importance of the black student population.

Here are some of what the students were tweeting:

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