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Why InterVarsity Is Supporting #BlackLivesMatter

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InterVarsity Christian Fellowship made a bold decision to promote the #BlackLivesMatter movement at its Urbana 2015 student missions conference last week.

A keynote speaker highlighted the movement and called on students to pursue racial justice and reconciliation.

However, #BlackLivesMatter continues as a controversial movement and InterVarsity has made clear that it does not endorse everything attributed to it.

Greg Jao, vice president and director of Campus Engagement for InterVarsity, spoke with CBN's Heather Sells about its decision to support the movement and why it encourages its staff and students to engage in racial injustice issues. Click play to watch.

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Heather
Sells

Heather Sells covers wide-ranging stories for CBN News that include religious liberty, ministry trends, immigration, and education. She’s known for telling personal stories that capture the issues of the day, from the border sheriff who rescues migrants in the desert to the parents struggling with a child that identifies as transgender. In the last year, she has reported on immigration at the Texas border, from Washington, D.C., in advance of the Dobbs abortion case, at crisis pregnancy centers in Massachusetts, and on sexual abuse reform at the annual Southern Baptist meeting in Anaheim