{"id":347760,"date":"2021-10-13T18:58:57","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T18:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=193724"},"modified":"2021-10-13T18:58:57","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T18:58:57","slug":"howard-university-students-sit-in-over-safety-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/10\/13\/howard-university-students-sit-in-over-safety-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard University Students Sit-In Over Safety Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC - Hundreds of Howard University students protested on campus Wednesday morning following a sit-in Tuesday night over housing and other concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Students with the group\u00a0Live Movement,\u00a0a coalition of students from historically Black colleges and universities who advocate for education reform, began their sit-in at the Blackburn University Center Tuesday evening to demand university officials, including President Wayne Frederick, agree to a town hall meeting by the end of the month to negotiate their demands. Protesters say they will not leave the university center until officials agree to enter talks.<\/p>\n<p>Students have expressed concerns about mold in the walls of their dorms, lack of COVID-19 testing for students, and safety on campus. Protester Tia-Andrea Scott explained that protesters are concerned about some students who\u2019ve reportedly been hospitalized after coughing up blood and\u00a0experiencing mold in the walls of their dorms.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/howard-university-students-sit-in-over-safety-issues\/\">Howard University Students Sit-In Over Safety Issues<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/howard-university-students-sit-in-over-safety-issues\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC &#8211; Hundreds of Howard University students protested on campus Wednesday morning following a sit-in Tuesday night over housing and other concerns.<br \/>\nStudents with the group\u00a0Live Movement,\u00a0a coalition of students from historically Black colle&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7234,36870,290,13,5720,7732],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347761,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347760\/revisions\/347761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}