Like so many young black girls, my dream was to move to Atlanta and attend the historically black college Spelman.
When he accepted the honor, the telecoms tycoon promised to sponsor at least 10 African students to attend the historically black college.
After entering the historically black college as a remedial reading student with a thick Louisiana accent, Mackie is today a successful businessman, author and lecturer.
They had it moved from downtown Baton Rouge where the conferences are actually being held to Southern University, a historically black college to allow some students to come.
Students from the historically black college marched to the courthouse and the state Capitol building Thursday to protest what they described as voting discrepancies in several Florida counties during the presidential election.
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Those sentiments were echoed across town at the historically black Benedict College where Kathryn Jones of Columbia, and Brenda Walker of Irmo, work.
After finishing his elementary and high school years in Philadelphia, Wright attended Virginia Union College, a historically black school in Richmond.
Hundreds of college students from historically black schools such as Howard University in Washington traveled to Jena, along with civil rights activists such as Al Sharpton and the Rev.
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She and my father met at Kentucky State College, which was one of the HBCUs - the historically all-black colleges and universities - back in the' 60s.
In Georgia, historically black Savannah State has similar enrolments and charges as Georgia Southwestern State, a whiter rural college, but Savannah has recently had more students defaulting on their loans.
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