DeKALB | About 100 students began marching throughout campus today around noon chanting “black lives matter.”

The march began outside the Holmes Student Center near the bus turnaround and moved from DuSable Hall to the MLK Commons where the group held a moment of silence.

The demonstration branched out of #ProjectOutline, a Black Student Union-led initiative used to raise awareness on campus about unarmed black people being killed by police officers via chalk outlines, according to a Northern Star article.

Tribuana Jones, vice president for Black Student Union, said in an interview about a Wednesday demonstration that the Black Student Union has been a facilitator of the demonstrations. She said the community wanted to participate in demonstrations, so the 40-member union led the week’s events.

Students were wearing signs which displayed information about individuals who died at the hands of police Tuesday and Wednesday around campus. Jones encouraged people who are curious about what the signs mean to talk to the person wearing it and open a dialogue.