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Then and Now: How Student Advocacy at Howard Has Changed Over the Years

Then and Now: How Student Advocacy at Howard Has Changed Over the Years

Update: 2025-08-26
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Hello, hello! This week we discuss how student advocacy culture has changed at Howard University and the role social media plays in how students advocate for one another. We sit down with Taliana Singleton, also known as @dolly4300 on TikTok, a former Howard student who works with “Whose Howard Is It?,” Gwendolyn Jefferson, Ph.D., a Howard alumna who advocated for her community in the early 1970s, and Jelani Favors, Ph.D., incoming vice president of the United Negro College Fund and director of the Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute.



This is an episode you won't want to miss, tune in wherever you get your podcast!



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@dolly4300


Music: Blue Dot Sessions


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Host & Executive Producer: Zion Williams


Producers: Yacine Ba, Tatiana Allen


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Then and Now: How Student Advocacy at Howard Has Changed Over the Years

Then and Now: How Student Advocacy at Howard Has Changed Over the Years