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Reflections On 100 Years Of The Hilltop: 1970-’71 Editor Pearl Stewart

By Olivia Blevins and Ileya Williams, NewsVision reporters

The Hilltop is celebrating 100 years as the nation’s oldest Black collegiate newspaper. Co-founded at Howard University by Harlem Renaissance author Zora Neal Hurston, the newspaper has been the training ground for thousands of the nation’s top journalists. Retired journalist and educator, Pearl Stewart is one of them. She reflects on her time as editor and reporter at the paper during the campus protest which made national headlines in the late 1960s.

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