Four years ago I was faced with the difficult decision as a high school senior of where I would be spending the next four years continuing my education. I grew up in a family where the importance of attending a historically black college or university was stressed at an early age. Although few members of […]
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) were established before in the late 19th century to educate African Americans. The primary purpose of HBCUs was to educate black Americans, which they did almost exclusively from 1865 to the 1950s. The overwhelming majority of HBCUs opened after 1865 in response to the need to have institutions to […]
