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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Rascoe, Ayesha, editor.

Title: HBCU made : a celebration of the black college experience / Edited and with an introduction by Ayesha Rascoe.

Other titles: Historically Black colleges and universities

Description: First edition. | Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2024. |

Identifiers: LCCN 2023049242 (print) | LCCN 2023049243 (ebook) |

ISBN 9781643753867 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781643756004 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Historically Black colleges and universities—Social aspects. | African American college students—Social conditions. | College choice— United States. | Historically Black colleges and universities—History. | African Americans—Education, Higher—United States.

Classification: LCC LC2781 .H42 2024 (print) | LCC LC2781 (ebook) | DDC 378.1/982996073—dc23/eng/20231027

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023049242

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023049243

ISBN 978-1-64375-601-1 (paperback), 978-1-64375-600-4 (ebook)

First Paperback Edition

E3-20241204-PDJ-PC-REV

Contents

Cover

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Ayesha Rascoe

Introduction: Finding My Voice at the Mecca

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

The Black Woman Artist and Her Black-Owned Songs

Roy Wood Jr.

Kid in a Wrinkled-Ass Suit

Stacey Abrams

The Renewing Power of HBCUs

Lauren F. Ellis

I Love My HIU

Shawn Zachery

A Southern Girl in a Complicated World

Tendayi Kuumba

The Sisterhood That Changed My World

Branford Marsalis

It’s About the Culture

Michael Arceneaux

Howard Is Where I Belonged, but It Wasn’t Easy

Rebecca K. Roussell

Perseverance Every Step of the Way

Marquis Brown

The Feeling of Finding Home

Nichole Perkins

HBCUs Taught Me

April Ryan

Loving You to Success

Melonie Parker

Let Your Life Do the Singing

Brandon Gilpin

Dear Old Morehouse

Leoneda Inge

Everybody Is Cheering for You

Oprah Winfrey

Anything Is Possible

About the Authors

Acknowledgments

Discover More

Praise for "HBCU Made"

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