We Are Worth Fighting For
We Are Worth Fighting For The Howard University protests from the perspective and worldview of its participantsWe Are Worth Fighting For is the first history of the 1989 Howard University protest.…
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We Are Worth Fighting For
The Howard University protests from the perspective and worldview of its participantsWe Are Worth Fighting For is the first history of the 1989 Howard University protest. Upset at the university's appointment of the Republican strategist Lee Atwater to the Board of Trustees, students forced the issue by shutting down the operations of the university. The three-day occupation of the university's Administration Building was a continuation of the student movements of the sixties and a unique challenge to the politics of the eighties.
Co-founded by Ras Baraka, the group was at the forefront of organizing the The protest, inspired in part by the emergence of "conscious" hip hop, helped to build support for the idea of student governance and drew upon a resurgent black nationalist ethos.At the center of this story is a student organization known as Black Nia F.O.R.C.E.