Sentences with phrase «predominantly black college»

The football team of Grambling State, the predominantly black college in rural Louisiana that Robinson, its football coach since 1941, put on the map, was on a blue highway.

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One respondent, a campus minister in Texas in 1964, moved to Alabama a year later, where he and his wife worked at Stillman College, a predominantly black school.

Xerox recruits at minority conferences, historically black colleges and universities, and Hispanic - serving institutions, as well as elite predominantly white institutions.

Simien's film takes place at Winchester University, a predominantly white, prestigious university where we're introduced to six significant characters: Sam White (Tessa Thompson), the biracial activist who overcompensates her blackness; Lionel Higgins (Tyler James Williams), the black homosexual who lives in an all - white residence building, and feels little sense of belonging; Colandrea «CoCo» Conners (Teyonah Parris), the white - washed blogger who acknowledges racism yet chooses to ignore it in fear of non-acceptance from the white majority; The Dean (Dennis Haysbert), who has worked hard his whole life solely to over-emphasize his superiority and intelligence towards white corporate men, specifically the president of Winchester; The Dean's son Troy (Brandon Bell), who spends his college career doing things to make his father happy and impress the white majority; and Kurt Fletcher (Kyle Gallner), the privileged, ignorant son of the President of Winchester.

«Dear White People» Season 2: A bunch of black scholars at a predominantly white college tackle problems with social justice on this comedy collection.

Four different black students are followed as a controversial event on an Ivy League campus creates issues with the students as they navigate campus life and racial politics at a predominantly white college.

Another marker of college readiness are Advanced Placement courses, and there's been a steady push to offer more of the classes to schools that serve predominantly black and Latino students.

All five fail to get more than 10 percent of their predominantly low - income black students ready for college or career.

Black undergraduates» experiences with perceived racial microaggressions in predominantly White colleges and universities.