HBCU Investigates Photo of White Student in Blackface

A white student at a historically black university is under investigation after a Snapchat photo of her in blackface was screen-captured and shared on social media on Wednesday. The photograph shows the student wearing what appears to be a blackface mask with the caption “When you just tryna fit in at your hbcu.”

Prairie View A&M University confirmed to Fusion that the woman in the photograph is a student there, and that the Texas university was looking into the circumstances of the photo.

Similar incidents have been reported recently at Kansas State University and at the University of North Dakota, where campus officials were forced to respond after photos of students in blackface were made public, but this is the first one reported at a historically black college or university.

In a video that also surfaced this week, a student at Albright College, in Reading, Pa., dances around with her face painted brown and padding in her pants, reports The Morning Call, in Allentown, Pa. The student calls herself “Carlisha” and insults the Black Lives Matter movement.

The college’s president issued a statement saying that both the student in the video and the student who filmed it have been suspended until an investigation is completed.