Enrollment in colleges, especially black colleges, across the country increased tremendously during the five-year run of 'A Different World,' and I don't think you could have a better legacy than that.
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Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school.
During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.
I went to an historically black college where we're always told that there's limitation. And so I'm happy to represent for black colleges.
Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching the lives of not just African Americans, but our entire country.
College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.
In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
College gives people learning and also takes away future opportunities by loading the next generation down with debt.
If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort?
Students of color who attended integrated schools in the decades immediately following Brown were more likely to graduate high school, go to college, earn higher wages, live healthier lifestyles, and not have a criminal record than their peers in segregated schools.
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