Why Did It Take Howard So Long to Listen to Students?

HBCU students have been protesting unlivable housing conditions — including rampant mold infestations — for weeks. ClarissaMBrooks reports

Photo: The Live Movement On Monday, Howard University announced that after the longest student protest in the school’s history, the administration had finally reached an agreement with student organizers. The news followed more than a month of student demonstrations against unlivable housing conditions on campus, including a number of students who set up tents in front of the school’s Blackburn student center.

Camryn Turner, a freshman at Howard, recently told the Cut she just had her first hot shower in her dorm in over a month. “I was living in other people’s dorms for an entire month because mine was so uninhabitable,” she said. “I started getting mold in our dorms, and our water is turned off every other week. We just got hot water.”

These issues are not unique to Howard. Similar demonstrations have begun at other historically Black colleges and universities , including within the Atlanta University Consortium, which includes Spelman College, Morehouse College, and Clark Atlanta University, where students are protesting their own housing crises in solidarity with those at Howard.

Which, many Howard students feel, makes the administration’s response to the protest all the more hypocritical. Student organizers have reported tense and occasionally violent interactions with campus police since the start of the occupation. And last month, President Frederick wrote a letter to the Howard community downplaying students’ claims and calling for an end to the protest.

Across the country, Black leaders have rallied in solidarity with student organizers. Reverend Jesse Jackson, NAACP president Derrick Johnson, and Martin Luther King III, the eldest son of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., have all spoken in support of the students. “I support their struggle for safe, dignified housing,” D.C. council member Janeese Lewis George said in a recent tweet. “It’s the same struggle Black families face against gentrification all over D.C.

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