After a Viral Video, Black Students at American University Struggle With Campus Climate

For Moyo and others, this incident is part of a larger discussion. This isn’t the first time the campus has had to wrestle with racial tensions. In April, a video of a White student using the N-word spread online. In spring 2017, bananas were found hanging on campus, with AKA, the acronym of the predominantly Black sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha, written on them. The following fall, posters of the confederate flag with cotton balls attached appeared on campus.