Carrington York - The Hilltop http://staging.thehilltoponline.com The Nation's Oldest Black Collegiate Newspaper Wed, 13 Oct 2021 20:42:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.3 http://staging.thehilltoponline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-NewHilltopLogo-32x32.jpg Carrington York - The Hilltop http://staging.thehilltoponline.com 32 32 69877606 Meet the Royal Court: 2020-2021 Student Leaders Selected http://staging.thehilltoponline.com/2020/04/09/meet-the-royal-court-2020-2021-student-leaders-selected/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=meet-the-royal-court-2020-2021-student-leaders-selected Fri, 10 Apr 2020 00:40:16 +0000 http://staging.thehilltoponline.com/?p=12719 Student election results marked an era of change for Howard University as the new Royal Court assumed their positions for the 2020-2021 academic year.

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]]> 12719 Churches Face Challenges Around Virtual Transition http://staging.thehilltoponline.com/2020/04/09/churches-face-challenges-around-virtual-transition/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=churches-face-challenges-around-virtual-transition Fri, 10 Apr 2020 00:06:41 +0000 http://staging.thehilltoponline.com/?p=12700 By Carrington York, Staff Reporter For many, churches are a home away from home but as the nation and world adopt stay-at-home orders, places of worship are trying to find their place in the cyberworld. California Governor Newsom was the first to enact orders with the intention to “make additional resources available, formalize emergency actions […]

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]]> 12700 Still Standing: Shaw’s last Black-Owned Buildings Dodge Gentrification http://staging.thehilltoponline.com/2020/03/12/still-standing-shaws-last-black-owned-buildings-dodge-gentrification/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=still-standing-shaws-last-black-owned-buildings-dodge-gentrification Thu, 12 Mar 2020 15:30:23 +0000 http://staging.thehilltoponline.com/?p=12617 By Carrington York, Staff Reporter An assortment of seasonal flowers lies ready to be cut and arranged, as the phone rings eagerly with the day’s bouquet orders for Lee’s Flower and Card Shop.  Lee’s has been a staple of Shaw’s U Street corridor since 1969, but is now one of the black owned-businesses that has […]

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]]> 12617 Howard University Sodexo Employees Petition for ‘Cost-of-Living Wage’ http://staging.thehilltoponline.com/2020/02/13/howard-university-sodexo-employees-petition-for-cost-of-living-wage/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=howard-university-sodexo-employees-petition-for-cost-of-living-wage Thu, 13 Feb 2020 16:45:54 +0000 http://staging.thehilltoponline.com/?p=12504 By Carrington York, Staff Reporter More than 20 Sodexo employees and Howard University students recently held a “walk-in” to protest the dining workers’ wages. The protest was a response to an ongoing contract dispute between Sodexo and dining employees who work at Howard dormitories and the Blackburn University Center.  Under Sodexo, Howard dining employees’ contracts […]

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