Episodes

  • Karvis Jones: The best decision I ever made

    Karvis Jones: The best decision I ever made
    Feb 8 2018
    Karvis Jones is a 2003 graduate of Rust College. Few people love their college as much as Karvis. Listen to his story about how Rust College has been a part of him since he was a child.
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    28 mins
  • Tiffany Greene: A picture worth a thousand words

    Tiffany Greene: A picture worth a thousand words
    Feb 4 2018
    Tiffany Greene is a 2014 graduate of Spelman College. The idea of this podcast series came about after the HBCU series team found a graduation photograph of Greene taken by AJC photographer Curtis Compton. He says it is one of his best shots. She has a different opinion about it.
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    26 mins
  • Donald Mason Jr.: Of Chidley and the Chicken Man

    Donald Mason Jr.: Of Chidley and the Chicken Man
    Jan 31 2018
    Donald Mason Jr. is a 1989 graduate of North Carolina Central University. Anyone with an affiliation or glancing knowledge of NCCU knows about Chidley Hall, the hulking dormitory on the hill that nearly every man in the school’s history has lived in. Mason tells his story about living in Chidley.
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    34 mins
  • Sara White: What I needed

    Sara White: What I needed
    Jan 28 2018
    Sara White is a 1993 graduate of Clark Atlanta University. A native of Minneapolis, White came to Atlanta for her freshman year having had little interaction with black culture. That changed quickly.
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    32 mins
  • Wayne Haydin: Mr. President

    Wayne Haydin: Mr. President
    Jan 25 2018
    Wayne Haydin graduated from Southern University in 2004 and from the law school in Class of 2009. During his senior year, Haydin made history by doing something that no one had ever done in the long history of the school.
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    37 mins
  • Carlton Riddick: Like I had a second mother and father

    Carlton Riddick: Like I had a second mother and father
    Jan 21 2018
    Carlton Riddick is a 1993 graduate of Johnson C. Smith University. While Carlton spent some of his summers in Charlotte, the New Yorker faced a culture shock when he found himself “Down South” for college.
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    28 mins
  • Karen Wood: Do what makes you uncomfortable

    Karen Wood: Do what makes you uncomfortable
    Jan 18 2018
    Karen Wood is a 2016 graduate of Spelman College. Her journey through college is even more remarkable since she did it at an advanced age, after raising her children and establishing her career.
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    29 mins
  • Imani Watts: A new goal every day

    Imani Watts: A new goal every day
    Jan 10 2018
    Imani Watts is a Spelman College sophomore from Los Angeles. Majoring in dance with a double minor in fashion design and business management, Imani is already laying down a foundation to become a business mogul.
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    19 mins