Howard U. Students and Union Workers Protest Over Aid Delays, Labor Practices

by E Wayne Ross on September 8, 2009

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Student advocacy director Corey Briscoe, in white T-shirt, addresses some of the 350 protesters. (By Gerald Martineau — The Washington Post)

Washington Post: Howard U. Students and Union Workers Protest Over Aid Delays, Labor Practices

About 350 students and union workers crowded the plaza outside Howard University’s administration building Friday morning, protesting a long list of grievances — including problems with on-campus housing, delays in financial aid payments and labor practices — and at one point threatening a sit-in before they were turned away from the building’s doors.