Rats, mold, roaches: Howard students stage sit-in over housing conditions

Students at historically Black college in DC say conditions are deplorable and would rather sleep at student center than dorms

Mold. Rats. Cockroaches. Mushrooms growing under the sink. For undergraduate students attending Howard University, a historically Black college in Washington, these and other conditions have prompted students to protest, staging a sit-in and sleeping at the university's main student center for the past two weeks.

Organizing on social media apps like Instagram and TikTok under the #Blackburntakeover, as many as 150 students have been staging a sit-in at Howard's Blackburn University Center, described as the social hub of the university" by Howard.