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Black in America on CNN and HBCU campuses

April 8th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

I received a nice email from a PR rep at CNN about a special tour they’re doing to get a ‘grassroots’ perspective on what it means to be Black in America. The concept is pretty neat as it enlists the opinions of students on HBCU campuses to provide a report, documentary style, to share with the world.

The tour started at Florida A&M University today and will continue as follows:

-April 10 North Carolina Central

-April 11 North Carolina A & T

-April 16 Hampton

-April 18 Howard Unviersity

-April 22 AUC (Spelman, Morehouse and Clark ATL)

Chosen winners that submit and upload their projects to CNN’s ireport.com website will win digital cameras and automatically be placed in the running for a grand prize, a trip for two to the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans over the 4th of July weekend.

FAMU’s winning entry is embedded below, and I must say, the young brother did an excellent job. Be sure to check out the comments of the video on the actual page, as well as additional videos about why students chose to attend HBCUs and their importance.

There Are 3 Responses So Far. »

  1. Comment by Rashad on 8 April 2008:

    I think that this is a great idea, and as an alumnus from Florida A&M, I thought that he did an excellent job and represented the university proudly.

  2. Comment by adama zouman on 9 April 2008:

    I am not big on conspiracy but I find the timing of this report rather suspicious.

    Black History Month was in february, why not publish the report then?

    Exploring this issue as the first African American candidate is trying wrapping up the nomination seems a bit too convenient…

    What are the chances, they play clips of Reverend Wright during that special?

  3. Comment by Tena on 10 April 2008:

    Does anyone know what times these specials are airing? I see dates in the above article. Even in CNN’s commerial, they just give the dates for the indivual college but no times.