CNN)Students at a Massachusetts high school held a walkout on Friday morning to protest a racist video made by a White student and to demand a change to the "culture of racism" in the school district, a top school official said.
"We heard them today," said Kevin W. Mulvey, who serves as the superintendent of Quincy Public Schools. Speaking to CNN, he described the walkout as a protest against "racism, hate speech, and injustice."
He acknowledged that beyond the recent video, students have made complaints in the past about racism within the school district, saying the district confronted another recent incident last week that included hate speech and sexual harassment.
