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.