Local activist groups launched an effort to block the upcoming construction of an NFL stadium at the Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Memorial Stadium site in Washington, D.C.
The new RFK Stadium aims to bring...
By Kate Hwang, Student Life Desk Editor
• September 6, 2024
Georgetown University’s Free Speech Project, a research initiative dedicated to analyzing trends in free speech access across the globe, hosted a panel about what exercising free speech and protest rights...
Pro-Palestinian protesters dispersed for the night after reassembling May 9 at George Washington University (GWU), one night after the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) arrested 33 individuals.
Police...
By Song Lim, Special to The Hoya
• February 9, 2024
Police arrested nearly two dozen pro-Palestinian demonstrators for blocking traffic in Washington, D.C. while demanding a ceasefire and an end to Israeli attacks on Gaza at a Feb. 1 protest.
Twenty-three...
Howard University students have been occupying a student center on campus for over two weeks, demanding university action regarding unsafe on-campus living conditions.
Since Oct. 12, students have...
Members of Georgetown University Riqueza Dominicana, a student-run Dominican cultural club, attended a protest near the White House on Sunday opposing the Dominican Republic’s recent suspension of nationwide...
Active demonstrations supplement individual lifestyle changes in making strides towards combating climate change, according to actress and activist Jane Fonda at a Jan. 7 event.
The event, titled “This...
As astronaut Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon in July 1969 forever expanded humanity’s horizons, women setting foot on the Hilltop just a few weeks later transformed Georgetown University...
A part of me feels unprepared to read the news every morning for fear of what my city has become. Hong Kong, the place where I lived all 18 years of my life before coming to Washington, D.C., has been...
The timing was a little too perfect. The Georgetown University Hong Kong Student Association hosted Robert Delaney, U.S. bureau chief of the Hong Kong-based English language news outlet South China Morning...
Last week, hundreds of thousands of Chilean protesters joined those in Hong Kong, Bolivia, Lebanon and Spain to demand democratic reforms. Though driven to the streets by a rise in the cost of public...
Georgetown University students demonstrated in support of LGBTQ labor rights outside of the Supreme Court Oct. 8 as opening arguments on three high-profile cases were presented to the court.
The Supreme...
