A new activism arrived in metro Atlanta a little more than a year ago.

MyAJC reports.

Today’s student activists: On fire against a gumbo of issues

Atlanta, the cradle of the civil rights movement that targeted racism, is now in the sway of a nationwide wave of student activism that has so much in its bull’s-eye, some have termed it a “gumbo” movement.

And while observers see similarities in the demonstrations of then and now, students in the thick of things say there are differences to this new struggle that make it distinctly their own.

This new activism made its way to metro Atlanta a little more than a year ago. As America watched the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., students at Emory University, Morehouse College and Kennesaw State University seized the moment, joining the hundreds of people who converged on the streets of downtown Atlanta in protest after a Missouri grand jury decided not to indict police Officer Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown.