The future of historically black colleges, or HBCUs, is a topic never far from my thoughts. After all, it was an HBCU that provided educational access to me and thousands of other blacks at a time in America when racial segregation was the law of the land and strictly enforced from birth to death. Not only did these mostly small, poorly resourced colleges educate the overwhelming majority of black baby boomers like me, they imbued in us the courage to challenge the status quo and a willingness to be the first black teachers in integrated schools, corporate executives, government workers, elected officials, and other positions of leadership. According to data published by US Department of Education, in 1976 35% of all African American bachelor’s degrees holders had earned their degrees from HBCUs.
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Thursday, May 26th 2016 at 9:26AM
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