More than 100 VCU graduates walked out of graduation ceremony

• Those pro-Palestinian campus protests included one two weeks ago at VCU that ended with 13 arrests after law enforcement intervened with pepper spray and riot shields.
• Graduates told RTD on Saturday they were also protesting a Youngkin request to review the syllabi for a potential racial literacy course requirement at VCU, which the school's board voted Friday to reject.
• His administration's K-12 transgender policies, Republican-led efforts to remove some books from K-12 schools and his opposition to critical race theory were other issues the grads were protesting.

Zoom in: Around 1,200 graduates were at the university-wide ceremony Saturday, per RTD.

• Roughly 50 of the more than 100 students who walked out of the ceremony at the Richmond Convention Center joined a Pro-Palestinian march to nearby Abner Clay Park.

Zoom out: VCU's graduation walkout out was one of several that took place across the nation on Saturday, per the New York Times.

• Students graduating from University of Wisconsin turned their backs during a speech by the university chancellor, and at University of California, Berkeley, hundreds of graduates chanted throughout the ceremony.
• Elsewhere, graduations took place without incident, including at Virginia Tech.