In Washington, D.C., faculty at Howard University have announced they could go on strike next week over unresolved issues with their working conditions, including below-living wages for non-tenured educators. This is Cyrus Hampton, a contingent faculty member who teaches full-time in Howard’s English Department.

Cyrus Hampton: “We are calling on our tenured and tenure-track colleagues to stand with us and honor our picket lines during the strike. We’re calling on our students, alums and all of the HU community to support us in our effort to overcome the unfair labor practices of university leadership and to better the university as a whole.”

Howard is one of the top historically Black colleges and universities in the United States. Last fall, students won improvements to university housing and other concessions after they held a weeks-long sit-in protest occupying a student center on campus.