Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was heavily booed while she was delivering a commencement address on Wednesday at Bethune-Cookman University, a historically black college in Florida.
Students jeered DeVos and turned their backs to her, BuzzFeed reports.
BuzzFeed reporter Molly Hensley-Clancy was present at the Bethune-Cookman commencement exercises, and tweeted updates throughout the event. She first documented the students' loud booing of Omarosa Manigault, the White House Office of Public Liaison's director of communications and a close confidante of President Donald Trump from his time on "The Apprentice."
WATCH: Betsy DeVos was booed while delivering commencement speech at @bethunecookman today. pic.twitter.com/YqLXmqrZ8K
— Local 4 WDIV Detroit (@Local4News) May 10, 2017
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Further protests were heard when DeVos took the stage to give her commencement address and receive an honorary degree.
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An increasing number of students turned their backs to DeVos as she spoke.
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One student was escorted out to cheers after giving a "black power symbol."
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Students persisted in cursing and turning their backs on the secretary of education through the entire speech. Their protests continued through the speech of BCU President Edison O. Jackson.
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