A&T students recognize their legacy and opportunity HBCUs unfairly penalized by NCAA academic and graduation standards.Millennials want something different from HBCUs - and they are getting it.President Obama talks race, sports and being Undefeated.Stung by Martin’s death, President Barack Obama, who observed, “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon,” began to plan a multipronged public-private initiative called My Brother’s Keeper to help young men of color reach their potential through mentoring and educational programs. Live long enough to graduate.īlack, fatherless, silently fearing the next fork in his life, McQueen lived just 22 miles from a man who had shared many of those traits when he was 16, but now was in a position to change the calculus for tens of thousands of boys like McQueen. In the summer after 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot to death by a neighborhood watch volunteer in Florida, Noah McQueen, 16, sat in a juvenile detention center in Cheltenham, Maryland, and wrote down a list of goals: Get on the school newspaper team.
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