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  1. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 73: Florida Memorial University

    We last covered Fayetteville State University which received an average score of 7.5. See the updated leaderboard here Today we head to sunny Miami, Florida to profile South Florida's only HBCU: Florida Memorial University. Located in the traditionally Black area of Miami Gardens, FMU probably...
  2. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 72: Fayetteville State University

    We last covered South Carolina State University which received an average score of 6.3. See the updated leaderboard here Today we head to another North Carolina public HBCU, Fayetteville State University. It is the smallest of the public NC HBCUs but one of the oldest dating to the end of the...
  3. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 71: South Carolina State University

    We last covered Wiley College which received an average score of 7. See the updated leaderboard here Today we head back to Orangeburg, SC where we previously covered Claflin University. Its neighboring HBCU is the public HBCU South Carolina State University. SCSU is the largest HBCU in South...
  4. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 70: Wiley College

    We last covered Southern University and A&M College which received an average score of 8.4. See the updated leaderboard here Today we head to Marshall, TX to look at Wiley College, one of the first HBCUs established west of the Mississppi. Established by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1873...
  5. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 69: Southern University and A&M College

    We last covered Lincoln University (Missouri) which received an average score of 7. See the updated leaderboard here Today we head to the Boot, to visit the eminent Southern University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. Usually known as just Southern University or SUBR, due to its location...
  6. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 68: Lincoln University (Missouri)

    We last covered Cheyney University of Pennsylvania which received an average score of 6.7. See the updated leaderboard here Missouri has two HBCUs. He first covered Harris-Stowe University of St. Louis and today we will cover the other Lincoln University (MO) in the capital Jefferson City (not...
  7. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 67: Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

    We last covered Morehouse College which received an average score of 9.2. See the updated leaderboard here Today we cover the oldest HBCU in the nation--Cheyney University of Pennsylvania. Founded in 1937 from the $10,000 donation of a Quaker businessman, Richard Humphreys, who was horrified...
  8. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 66: Morehouse College

    We last covered H. Councill Trenholm State Community College which received an average score of 6. See the updated leaderboard here Morehouse College needs little introduction. Part of the big three of the HBCUs including Spelman College (Day 33) and Howard University (Day 50), Morehouse...
  9. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 65: H. Councill Trenholm State Community College

    We last covered Virginia University of Lynchburg which received an average score of 6.3. See the updated leaderboard here Montgomery is best known for Alabama State but like Alabama A&M shares Huntsville with J.F. Drake Community College, there is H. Councill Trenholm State Community College...
  10. DrBanneker

    Spin: Educated Black women largely end up with the same kind of men (Black or White)

    I really pondered throwing this data out for a while. I am not into gender warring and I figured this may end up as that. However, I guess the Eboni Williams thread got me to go ahead and do it. To be clear: This is not an anti-IR thread. If someone is happy with a White man or woman, good for...
  11. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 64: Virginia University of Lynchburg

    We last covered Tennessee State University which received an average score of 8.5. See the updated leaderboard here Virginia University of Lynchburg is a small Christian HBCU in Lynchburg, VA. Originally started as a Baptist seminary in 1888 (the Lynchburg Baptist Seminary and later the...
  12. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU: HBCU Major Best Buys

    With all the talk at @get these nets thread on HBCU gender gaps relating to the "worth" or not of college for boys, I thought I might throw out some info I have been collecting. Generally, the highest paying HBCUs are the top four (Howard, Hampton, Morehouse, Spelman) and the engineering focused...
  13. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 63: Tennessee State University

    We last covered Livingstone College which received an average score of 6. See the updated leaderboard here Now we had back to Nashville to cover Tennessee State University (TSU). The largest HBCU in Nashville as well as Tennessee, TSU was actually the last HBCU established in the Nashville...
  14. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 62: Livingstone College

    We last covered Arkansas Baptist College which received an average score of 5.5. See the updated leaderboard here Livingstone College has a unique history in being one of the first colleges established by the AME Zion Church. The reasons for its founding were ones of self-determination. As has...
  15. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 61: Arkansas Baptist College

    We last covered Savannah State University which received an average score of 5.5. See the updated leaderboard here We now look at the last HBCU in Arkansas we have not covered, Arkansas Baptist College. A small HBCU, it was founded in 1884 by the Black Baptists of Arkansas as the Minister's...
  16. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 60: Savannah State University

    We last covered Miles College which received an average score of 5.8. See the updated leaderboard here Savannah State University was originally founded as a segregated land grant university. It was called the Georgia State Industrial College for Colored Youth and was started in Athens, GA in...
  17. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 59: Miles College

    We last covered Denmark Technical College which received an average score of 5.7. See the updated leaderboard here Miles College is a small college in the Birmingham area founded by the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (then the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church). This same church also...
  18. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 58: Denmark Technical College

    We last covered the mighty Hornets of Alabama State which received an average score of 7.8. See the updated leaderboard here Denmark Technical College is one of two HBCUs in Denmark, SC. We previously covered the other, Voorhees College. Started during segregation in 1947 by the state as a...
  19. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 57: Alabama State University

    Yesterday we covered Virginia Union University which received an average score of 6.75. See the updated leaderboard here This is for you @staticshock and @skylove4 We now head to Montgomery, Alabama to cover the large Alabama HBCU and Alabama A&M rival, Alabama State University. Alabama...
  20. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 56: Virginia Union University

    We last covered the small Texas Christian school Southwestern Christian College which received an average score of 5. See the updated leaderboard here Today we head to the other HBCU in Richmond, Virginia Union University. A private school as opposed to the public nearby Virginia State...
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