Ayesha Rascoe, host of NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday has collaborated with a distinguished and diverse set of contributors in a joyous collection of essays about Historically Black Colleges and Universities entitled, HBCU Made.
HBCU Made: A Celebration of the Black College Experience will release January 30, 2024. The anthology 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 share personal accounts of the Black college experience in a series of moving and candid personal essays about how they nurtured and educated them.
Rascoe is a proud Howard University alum, who earned a B.A. in Journalism in 2007. She was also editor-in-chief of the student newspaper The Hilltop.
The anthology includes features from Oprah Winfrey, Stacey Abrams, Honorée F. Jeffers, and Branford Marsalis. The contributors discuss 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.
Rascoe will be on tour the whole month of January through Feb 12th. Her first stop will be at the Brooklyn Public Library 1/30. To save your seat to the event, visit The BPL website.
HBCU Made will be available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Target and more on January 30.
Click here to pre-order your copy today!
