When Channing Hill graduates from Howard University in 2023, she knows she will leave the campus a better place for future students. Hill, along with three...
“Protests have a role and create change,” said Hill, 20, a junior who is president of Howard’s NAACP student chapter. “Protests serve as something that shine a light in the dark; but to keep that light on, you have to continue the work.”
Howard University junior Channing Hill, pictured in Los Angeles with NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson, won the organization's "Youth Activist of the Year" award for organizing a protest in fall 2021.“It’s humbling, inspiring and invigorating when your children can become your heroes,” he said. “I’m proud and thankful because I know the commitment she has to the cause and the work she put in.
The complaints first started two decades ago, when Howard students protested with similar concerns in 2001 and again in 2017. Meanwhile, civil rights leaders visited the campus. Politicians on Capitol Hill joined the conversation. Rapper Gucci Mane declined to perform during Howard’s storied homecoming week, in solidarity with the protesting students.
On Day 34 of the protest, administrators signed an agreement effectively meeting the students’ demands — and promising them they would not be expelled from school or otherwise disciplined for organizing and participating in the sit-in.The Dallas Morning News“Did we get everything we wanted? Absolutely not. Are we satisfied with what we got? Absolutely not,” she said. “Do we feel that students are safer in the immediate meantime? Yes.
“Even in really hard times, she has this unyielding faith that it will be okay,” the Howard junior said. “I try to emulate that, but I have not mastered it.”“My dad is the type of person that can talk to anybody. He walks into a room with confidence,” she said, adding that she got charisma from both her parents, who attended the NAACP awards with her in Los Angeles.
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