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*Rihanna’s boss anthem “Bitch Better Have My Money” was chanted by Howard University students who continue to protest in the wake of a recent financial aid scandal.
As previously reported, it was recently revealed that university president Wayne A.I. Frederick first became aware of financial aid officers misappropriating roughly $1 million in funds earmarked for needy students in 2016, but didn’t go public about the findings until an anonymous whistleblower posted evidence this week on Medium.com.
The embezzlement went on for nearly a decade, Frederick confirmed Wednesday. Six employees of the financial aid office have been fired.
Irate students on the D.C. campus led a protest on Thursday (Mar. 29) choosing RiRi’s song as a fitting theme for their cause: “Bitch Better Have My Money.”
The singer retweeted a video of the protest, showing a massive group of students flooding the administrative building of the school shouting the lyrics. Rihanna added a flexing arm and a raising hands emoji to her caption. See below.
— Rihanna (@rihanna) March 30, 2018
During the daylong protest on Thursday, students posted signs with their demands outside of the administration building, which included a demand for Frederick’s resignation. Students were still occupying the building at press time this morning.
Read the students’ demands and more tweets from the front line below:
In the words of Frederick Douglass, “power concedes nothing without a demand.” These are our demands. #StudentPowerHU pic.twitter.com/pnFOefF2KM
— #StudentPowerHU (@HUResist) March 26, 2018
The University has shut off access to air conditioning in efforts of exhausting student protesters. #StudentPowerHU
— #StudentPowerHU (@HUResist) March 29, 2018
if you would like to aid #HUResist / #StudentPowerHU and our efforts to take back our University, please send food and supplies directly to:
Mordecai Johnson Administration Building
2400 Sixth Street
NW Washington, D.C. 20059Or cash app $HUResist to donate. pic.twitter.com/aJvKQUiF1S
— flawed perfection (@Breanne_Jones) March 29, 2018
Students are in story circles sharing what brought them here today. This is more than the embezzlement but the continuous devaluation of black students at universities. Many of the students are freshmen ♥️♥️♥️ #StudentPowerHU pic.twitter.com/apE865ACo3
— BYP100 (@BYP_100) March 29, 2018
Come out to the administration building! #StudentPowerHU https://t.co/eUuIZvhiYJ
— #StudentPowerHU (@HUResist) March 29, 2018
Students are occupying admin building! Please deliver food and water!! Up to 300 students here #StudentPowerHU
Mordecai Johnson Administration Building
2400 Sixth Street
NW Washington, D.C. 20059 pic.twitter.com/VLGSInPDeS— BYP100 (@BYP_100) March 29, 2018
Hey y’all pls don’t let the media using Tyrone as a scapegoat distract from bigger structural issues within the university #StudentPowerHU
— G ✨?? (@ganeeyahh) March 28, 2018
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