Howard University’s homecoming, a celebration of Black culture and pride, collided with conservative politics Friday when the Turning Point USA-backed Blexit movement showed up uninvited as part of the organization’s “Educate to Liberate” tour of historically Black campuses. The visit came weeks after the fatal shooting of Turning Point USA’s co-founder, Charlie Kirk, thrust the movement into a new national spotlight. But Blexit’s frosty reception at Howard and other schools suggests that Kirk’s near martyr-like status among conservatives is not translating to young Black people. On the outskirts of Yardfest, the annual campus concert that draws thousands to the school’s famed quad, two groups faced off. On one side, a
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