The Florida A&M University stop on BLEXIT’s nationwide “Educate to Liberate” tour, initially scheduled for Friday, Oct. 17, during the school’s homecoming week, was canceled, organizers confirmed.
“We will announce a new date soon,” a spokesperson said in an email on the day of the planned event, offering no explanation for the cancellation, according to the Tallahassee Democrat.
BLEXIT, a conservative grassroots organization founded in 2018 by commentator Candace Owens and now affiliated with Turning Point USA, aims to foster political dialogue on historically Black college campuses. Turning Point USA, established in 2012 by conservative activist Charlie Kirk, promotes free markets, limited government, and other conservative values on high school and college campuses.
Kirk, 31, was fatally shot during a campus speaking event at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10, 2025, in what authorities have described as a targeted attack.
What HBCUs will Blexit tour?
According to a promotional flyer, the tour was scheduled for Jackson State University on October 10. The tour was to move to Tennessee State University and Florida A&M University on October 17, North Carolina Central University on October 23, Howard University and Hampton University on October 24, Bowie State University and Lincoln University on October 31. Previous events were held at Johnson C. Smith University and Alabama State University.
What is Blexit?
Candace Owens, who has spent several years campaigning for what she calls a black exit, or ‘blexit’, from the Democratic Party and what she says is “permanent victimhood.”
“Blexit is a Renaissance,” Owens told Fox News in 2018. “Blexit is the black exit from the Democratic Party. It’s the black exit from permanent victimhood, the black exit from the false idea that we are somehow separate from the rest of America.”
Its website, in laying out the group’s “vision,” says that it wants a “better future for minority communities”, through a series of educational, justice and economic reforms, and seeks to “change the narrative that surrounds America’s minority communities – with a particular focus on African-Americans.”
The HBCU Blexit tour comes on the heels of a group of right-wing provocateurs being swiftly removed from Tennessee State University’s campus in Nashville last month after attempting to spark debate and promote inflammatory rhetoric about DEI and immigration.
BLEXIT did not cancel the event. FAMU asked them told BLEXIT that the event is to be rescheduled due to it being homecoming.