In My Blood: Spelman’s Tracey Hughes #MyHBCUMyStory
I cannot deny it. The HBCU spirit is in my blood. I grew up loving Historically Black Colleges and Universities before I fully understood their significance. As a child, I […]
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An Audacious Legacy: Howard’s Michelle Janaye #MyHBCUMyStory
leg·a·cy [leg-uh-see] noun, plural leg·a·cies. 1. anything handed down from the past to the present, as from an ancestor to predecessor. When I consider the legacy left to me by […]
Born On This Day: Talladega’s Juliette Derricotte #MyHBCUMyStory
In the fall of 1931, Fisk University Dean of Women Juliette Derricotte and three Fisk students drove south from Nashville to Georgia in order to visit their families. Outside of […]
“A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste” – What It Means To Me
Do the words “A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste” mean anything special to you? They do to me. I was a 16 year-old high school senior in the […]
On Mistakes
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts. – Nikki Giovanni, Fisk University ’67, poet, activist, educator
