Monday, September 7, 1 p.m. on WHRV FM

In 2015, Lauren Brown left her mostly Black Chicago neighborhood for the University of Missouri. Moving to a predominantly white college was a huge shock, made even more difficult by the racial harassment she faced that fall. That same semester, the campus erupted in protests that made international news after several instances of racial harassment set off a Black student-led movement to change the school — and inspired movements on campuses nationwide. But few got as much media coverage as the University of Missouri. News reports seemed to treat the racism at Mizzou as an aberration, but Lauren and other Black students knew that it wasn’t just a recent spate of incidents that lead to the uprisings — it was years and years of them. Join us Monday at 1 p.m., or you can listen online