Opinon - The Hilltop https://staging.thehilltoponline.com The Nation's Oldest Black Collegiate Newspaper Tue, 21 Feb 2023 12:06:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://staging.thehilltoponline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-NewHilltopLogo-32x32.jpg Opinon - The Hilltop https://staging.thehilltoponline.com 32 32 248273635 Letter to the Editor: Beware of Gentrification to the Soul of the Mecca https://staging.thehilltoponline.com/2023/02/21/letter-to-the-editor-beware-of-gentrification-to-the-soul-of-the-mecca/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=letter-to-the-editor-beware-of-gentrification-to-the-soul-of-the-mecca Tue, 21 Feb 2023 14:00:00 +0000 http://staging.thehilltoponline.com/?p=17024 I am fortunate that I live in the same NE D.C. neighborhood and house that I was raised in. I have a son that was wise enough to buy it and hold on to it. I did not go to Howard or any other college. My education was in Vietnam and running the streets of […]

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]]> 17024 Opinion: How Democracies Die and How the U.S. Democracy is No Exception https://staging.thehilltoponline.com/2022/12/05/how-democracies-die-and-how-the-u-s-democracy-is-no-exception/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-democracies-die-and-how-the-u-s-democracy-is-no-exception Mon, 05 Dec 2022 13:59:00 +0000 http://staging.thehilltoponline.com/?p=16632 Political scientist and Harvard University professor, Dr. Steven Levitsky, recently presented his research on international cases of eroding democracy at the opening of the Center for Journalism and Democracy (CJD) at Howard University, arguing that American democracy is wavering. The Democracy Summit, which took place on Nov. 15, was a day-long event where attendees deliberated […]

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]]> 16632 Letter From The Editor: Reflecting on 9/11 and the 9-1-1 Emergency In My Country. https://staging.thehilltoponline.com/2016/09/13/letter-from-the-editor-reflecting-on-911-and-the-9-1-1-emergency-in-my-country/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=letter-from-the-editor-reflecting-on-911-and-the-9-1-1-emergency-in-my-country Tue, 13 Sep 2016 20:24:12 +0000 http://staging.thehilltoponline.com/?p=7242 By Paul Holston, Editor-in-Chief Editor’s Note: Along with being a current Howard University undergraduate student, Paul Holston is a military veteran who served five years in the United States Army as a public affairs specialist and photojournalist. Holston transferred to Howard University in Fall 2014 to complete his B.A. in Journalism. There are an estimated 300-500 current military veteran […]

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