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HBCU made : a celebration of the Black college experience / edited and with an introduction by Ayesha Rascoe.

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Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2024.

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.

9781643753867 (hardcover) :

164375386X (hardcover) :

xxv, 198 pages ; 22 cm

Introduction: finding my voice at the Mecca / Ayesha Rascoe -- The black woman and her black-owned songs / Honorée Fanonne Jeffers -- Kid in a wrinkled-ass suit / Roy Wood Jr. -- The renewing power of HBCUs / Stacey Abrams -- I love my HIU / Lauren F. Ellis -- A southern girl in a complicated world / Shawn Zachery -- The sisterhood that changed my world / Tendayi Kuumba -- It's about the culture / Branford Marsalis -- Howard is where I belonged, but it wasn't easy / Michael Arceneaux -- Perseverance every step of the way / Rebecca K. Roussell -- The feeling of finding home / Marquis Brown -- HBCUs taught me / Nichole Perkins -- Loving you to success / April Ryan -- Let your life do the singing / Melonie Parker -- Dear Old Morehouse / Brandon Gilpin -- Everybody is cheering for you / Leoneda Inge -- Anything is possible / Oprah Winfrey.

"With a distinguished and diverse set of contributors including Oprah Winfrey, Stacey Abrams, and Branford Marsalis, HBCU Made illuminates and celebrates the experience of going to a historically Black college or university. This book is for proud alumni, their loved ones, current students, and anyone considering an HBCU. The first book featuring famous alumni sharing personal accounts of the Black college experience, HBCU Made offers a series of warm, moving, and candid personal essays about the schools that nurtured and educated them. The contributors write about how they chose their HBCU, their first days on campus, the dynamic atmosphere of classes where students were constantly challenged to do their best, the professors who devoted themselves to the students, the marching bands and majorettes and their rigorous training. For some, the choice to attend an HBCU was an easy one, as they followed in the footsteps of their parents or siblings. For others, it was a carefully considered step away from a predominantly white institution to be educated in a place where they would never have to justify their presence. And for some authors here, it was an HBCU that took them in and cared for them like family, often helping them to overcome a rough patch."--Publisher.

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