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Girls start Black Student Union to ‘uplift each other’ at East High School

Students had used a derogatory term in a video on Instagram, prompting a campus conversation with the leader of Black Lives Matter Utah during Black History Month.

A video that claimed African American girls aren’t pretty later circulated among students on social media.

But this video, played in a classroom at East High School after classes, was different. It covered race relations, interracial relationships, incarceration and economic struggles.

Rosine Nibishaka, president of the school’s new Black Student Union, turned from the screen to ask classmates sitting at a cluster of desks what they thought. “That’s deep,” Esperance Iradukunda said.