Howard University News Service
Award-winning correspondents for the Howard University News Service report on education, health, business, government and politics, religion, arts and entertainment, sports and other topics. The site specializes in hyper-local coverage of the Washington, D.C., region with senior correspondents assigned to each of the District of Columbia’s eight wards.
Howard Students Document 50th Anniversary of Historic Sit-ins
WASHINGTON (Feb. 2, 2010) – Twenty Howard University students were in Greensboro, N.C. over the weekend and Monday, Feb. 1, to document the 50th anniversary of one of the most important efforts of the Civil Rights Movement – the sit-ins at an F.W. Woolworth’s restaurant.