By Devin Katayama, KQED News Fix
The University of California says it has sold off investments in three large prison companies after pressure last month from black student organizations — but it’s a move that’s largely fiscal rather than the symbolic statement against prisons that the Afrikan Black Coalition wants to see.
Earlier this year, black student unions across California voted to call on the UC system to divest in companies supporting prisons and mass incarceration.
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