Protest During Tennessee Basketball Game

Several dozen students at a basketball game at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville sat together, dressed in black, and did not stand for the National Anthem, The Knoxville News Sentinel reported. The students were protesting the university's refusal to expel students who wore blackface in a photo that spread on social media. During the game, the students chanted, "No justice, no peace, no racist UT" and "Which side are you on, UT? Which side are you on?" University officials have said that, as a public institution covered by the First Amendment, they can't expel the students who posed in blackface.