Student Activism

Students, Teachers Fight to Rally Council Support

They're holding school walk-outs, sit-ins, and marches, carrying signs that read 'Fund our future' and 'We deserve better.'

The demands of the protesters were clear: D.C. leaders need to give the city’s neighborhood schools more money.

Georgetown University students voted overwhelmingly on Thursday in favor of creating a new student fee to benefit descendants of slaves sold nearly 200 years ago to benefit the school.

Georgetown students voted Thursday to create a fund to help descendants of slaves who were sold in the 19th century to pay off the university’s debts.

Students at Georgetown University voted on Thursday to increase their tuition to benefit descendants of the 272 enslaved Africans that the Jesuits who ran the school sold nearly two centuries ago to secure its financial future.

Georgetown University student activists are pushing to create a reparations fund for the descendants of slaves, one that would use a student fee to send a message that historical wrongs will not be forgotten — and to prod administrators to…

Georgetown University students are voting today on a proposed student fee that would benefit the descendants of slaves sold in 1838 to benefit the university.

The Board of Trustees would still need to approve the measure

The day it all began, in late March of last year, Kenneth Holmes had been at Howard University for about two years. During that time, Holmes, Howard’s vice president of student affairs, had spoken with students about their needs and…

They will take the Metro and march from the White House to the Capitol.

To this day, the sting of defeat continues to burn for the young people who, on several occasions, spoke to the D.C. Council about their sense of powerlessness against the societal ills affecting their generation, only for the city’s…

They don’t know yet what they will say or whether they will use any data to back up their points. But someday soon, three teenage girls will stand in front of an administrator at their D.C. school and make an important request: