Howard University to move forward on an agreement with student protesters

Published November 17, 2021 at 12:11 PM EST

Students are Howard University are packing up the “tent city” they slept in to protest conditions in campus dormitories.

WAMU’s Dominique Maria Bonessi joins us with the latest on the deal they reached with administrators.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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