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Finding a Place at an HBCU

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“[At Homecoming], they aren’t playing hip-hop or rap music that is relevant to our culture, so we would have to have our own events to feel that cultural connection to our campus.” This leaves minority students to have to create “counter-spaces of community,” for themselves, on their own. It’s called Black space-making.

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Bringing Greater Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

there were protests on campus. Students organized Black student unions demanding more African American studies courses, Black faculty and staff,” says Canton. We’re getting out there, having programming, engaging with students and bringing in scholars from the discipline.” Dr. David A.

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