On April 17, 2018, over one hundred Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health students in white coats, with faculty and staff, staged a “die-in” as part of a nationwide demonstration organized by White Coats for Black Lives. The peaceful protest was put together in the wake of the police shooting of Stephon Clark, a 22-year-old man who was standing in his grandmother’s yard, holding a cell phone.
Demonstration participants said their goal was to continue to bring awareness and attention to social injustice, implicit bias, and violence against Black people by police. National White Coats 4 Black Lives demonstrations began in 2014 after grand jury nonindictment in the cases of the murders of Michael Brown and Eric Garner.
