#historically black colleges

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Why are some hbcu’s no longer hbcu’s. Going as far as making st. Phillips college a Hispanic serving institute as well as a hbcu. This is why gatekeeping is important. And why black ppl have told other ppl to make their institutions because now black ppl are a minority at 7 of our own historically black colleges and university. This is insane.

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Navigating Common Mistakes in Historically Black College Applications

Applying to college can feel like a high-stakes game, especially when it comes to historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). With their unique cultures and values, HBCUs offer a distinct educational experience. However, to stand out in the admissions process, avoiding some common pitfalls can make all the difference. Ensuring Accuracy and Completeness One major blunder applicants…

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Holly Black is so real. I love that she wrote a fantasy series as her first ever publication and then ten years later she was like "you know what, I fuck heavy with that faerie shit actually" and just continued writing stories in that world. Go off queen. I hope she never stops. I hope she writes so much about faerie that it starts to feel like a living, breathing organism. Holly Black you are my idol.

[neo--queen--serenity]

I understand the choice to change the original use of the word “fag” to “drudge,” for obvious slur reasons. But, by doing that, you’re ensuring that viewers won’t know that fagging was an actual practice that’s been around for centuries in Great Britain.

It clearly wasn’t a humane or ethical system, and it’s deeply frowned upon in present day. But it was a huge part of British public/boarding school culture, and “fag” and “fagging” were the words exclusively used for this practice.

There’s even a possibility that the modern gay slur “faggot” was derived from this practice, since fagging frequently involved physical and sexual abuse between students. However, tellingly, fagging became less popular in some schools when homosexuality was more actively criminalized.

All that is to say that—though I get the reasoning—you’re still erasing a plot-relevant part of history by glossing over this very bad, very true thing that existed in England (and in some English colonies!) up through the 20th century. The truth is ugly, but it’s better context for the story you’re telling, and quite honestly makes Ciel’s situation at Weston make a lot more sense.

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I will not deny, due to being busy and procrastinating, I’m a week late to starting the new Black Butler season, but now I have and I can confidently say I love the adaptation

The visuals are SO GORGEOUS overall I recently found out the storyboards & direction for the ending theme were done by artist okazakiokaa and as usual they delivered! A great fan of their work（≧∇≦）

The opening theme and the foreshadowing and symbolism in it were also well done. The contemptuous look Ciel has right at very end… he looks so cool 🥹

As I was watching, the scenes with the stained glass for the P4 kept catching my eyes. The details for each of them look emaculate!

This entire sequence in Ep 2 was originally just official artworks for the manga, but I like how cloverworks utilized it for the recap scene. The paint-like style they went for it looks amazing too

The character designs & general art direction are a mixture between Yana Toboso’s current art style & also Cloverworks adding their own flare and honestly I like how everyone looks!

[Perhaps in another world I would’ve been an Edgar simp…]

[THE iconic scenes]

[I can not deny, Maurice’s visuals are on point. Too bad this winsome face masks a wicked character]

[As I was watching I suddenly remembered that as a kid I used to simp for Harcourt lmao 😭. I can’t say my preferences for designs have changed… I still lean towards this haircut and blonde characters 😓

Anyway… I feel so bad him, especially given the… tragedy he is subjected to later on 😭]

[I look forward to Soma’s scenes ٩(๑❛ᴗ❛๑)۶. Tho I predict a bittersweet feeling enveloping my heart in the coming episodes ❤️‍🩹]

All in all, the Public School arc is one of my top faves and I very much enjoy the adaptation so far. Cloverworks did an amazing job and it’s clear a lot of hard work has been put in to adapt the source. I look forward to the rest!

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Robert Sheehan honored by University College Dublin’s Literary & Historical society, 2013

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Brave people of Tumblr afflicted with Sudden Onset Blackness, what are your stories?

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January 2, 2023

Storer College at Camp Hill, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

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Deion Sanders, Michael Irvin share an embrace on the set of Undisputed before the first CU vs. USC showdown

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LAND GRANT AND UNIVERSITIES: A PRIMER

The history of land grant colleges of agriculture is intertwined with the history of  higher education for U.S. citizens of average means.

The land grant system began in 1862 with the passage of the Morrill Land Grant  Act. This law  gave states public lands provided the lands be sold or used for profit and the proceeds used to establish one college—hence, land grant colleges—that  would teach agriculture and the mechanical arts.

The Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 can be read in its entirety here.

Land grants status for the establishment of colleges of agriculture and mechanical arts was also later given to U.S. territories and the District of Columbia. The legislative mandate for these land grant colleges helped extend higher education to broad segments of the U.S. population.

In 1889, many Land Grant colleges were largely segregated.  In an effort to seek Federal funding, these Public Universities were required to integrate.  However, Public Universities in most states responded by legislating new agricultural and mechanical arts colleges for Black citizens rather than enhance existing institutions  through integrated programs. The Act passed in 1890 gave rise to a network of often poorly financed colleges known as the “1890” Land Grant Universities. This Act, passed by Congress in 1890, provided for annual appropriations to each state to support its land grant college.

The Morrill Land Grant Act of 1890 can be read in its entirety here.

In addition to appropriating funding, a state could escape this provision, however, if separate institutions were maintained and the funds divided in a "just," but not    necessarily equal, manner.

Thus the 1890 act led to the establishment of land grant institutions for African Americans.

Today there are 19 “1890” institutions - including one private institution, Tuskegee University - located primarily in the southeast. In addition to being part of the land   grant system, these 1890 Universities are among the more than 100 Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the United States.

The Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 can be read in its entirety here.

(Pulled from “Colleges of Agriculture at the Land Grant Universities: A Profile” by  National Academies Press)

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HBCUs and respectability politics

Although many may not be aware, most of the fashion and cultural trends that dominate our culture are pioneered by black people. Styles like extravagant acrylic nails, hoop earrings, sneaker culture, baggy clothing all began or were popularized by the black community in the 20th century. These styles were often deemed ‘ghetto’ or distasteful until white celebrities brought them to the mainstream.…

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It's All a Facade

In college I was generally open to any and everything, I don't recall ever refusing any opportunity presented to me. One of the many modeling gigs I did was for the school itself, to update their promotional and PR materials to encourage other young people like myself to attend the school. This was so long ago I don't recall how I specifically heard about this opportunity to model for the school brochure, but I am betting it was from something official posted on or around campus.

What I do remember just looking at this photo, is that first I didn't know any of the people I was seated with, and that all the folks in the background were totally staged. The one true thing on campus was, like people tended to hang out with like people. I am not saying there wasn't any cross-pollination, but it wasn't as standard as people hanging out with folks didn't look like them.

I would be remiss if I didn't mention in a Primarily White Institution you are going to get those groups of mostly white kids with a single person of color in them. Some minority groups would judge those folks feeling a certain level of social betrayal, but in reality the numbers just aren't there. If you're on a campus of five thousand and only sixty of those people are people of color, it doesn't make any sense that the only people you would socialize with were POC's.

My identities at the time had me straddling the lines between two groups, the Blacks and the queers, ultimately my loyalties fell to the queers because I was more readily accepted there and even tokenized, which was highly problematic, but was a real boost to my developing self-esteem even if one based in distorted perceptions of who exactly I was.

At the end of the day I was still always Black and would hear of the tales of other Blacks in our college town being asked for multiple pieces of identity to get into the local bars. But the Blacks on campus, especially the men, didn't like my being gay and thought of it as a betrayal to the race, which was curious since I lead a race-based boycott of one of the theatrical production based on their very racialized casting procedures.

College was an interesting place for me, I seemed to learn much more outside of the classroom than in it. The biggest shock to me was learning of the significant class difference between myself and my peers. I remember traveling to one of my friends homes, which for all intensive purposes was a mansion to me, as we drove there in his Range Rover, I marveled at the inside jacuzzi versus the outside jacuzzi and pool in the beautiful and exclusive Lynnbrook neighborhood in Long Island.

Today I would never volunteer to promote the propaganda of an institution that didn't fully embrace diversity as they would like you to think, but only gave it lip service when you actually looked at the make up of their administration and staff. But I was young, hopeful and still believing that the world was basically a good place. This would begin to change in my time in college and be cemented in my years post college. If I had to go back and choose differently knowing what I know now, I would have went to a Historically Black College or University.

[Photo by Brown Estate]

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