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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.

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