Thread by @ProtestSGW

Fascinating conversation between @NewBlackMan and @ddhewty about the 1989 protest at Howard, and the divisions between the Howard of the Black community and the Howard of the administration

https://twitter.com/ProtestSGW/status/1539013913613946885

students were fighting for an Afro-centric curriculum, improved campus housing, credit for community service and support for community institutional building, and protesting appt of Republican Committee Chair Lee Atwater to the board of trustees

Students had an interesting relationship with campus police, who came from the surrounding community. Students supported them in labour disputes, and in turn campus police held a sick-out when student's occupied campus. #Solidarity

DC police, Josh Myers says, was another story. They stormed the campus, but then mayor Marion Barry (former chairman of SNCC) went to campus, to assure students were safe and made police step down

Myers says you don't need to go all the way back to the 60s for examples of revolution. 1989 student protest leaders included Sister Souljah, Ras Baraka.

What can we learn from Gen X struggles against the formation of the neoliberal university?
What does it mean to have Black leadership who understand the power of protest?

Of course, we date the roots of the neoliberal university at Sir George earlier. But there is a through line from the 60s to the 80s to the present