Join the Library and Loyalty Bookstores fo r a special evening with Ayesha Rascoe. In conversation with Pulitzer Priz e winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones\, Rascoe will discuss this joyous new collection of essays about historically Black colleges and universiti es.
\nCourtesy of the DC Public Library Foundation\, 30 copies of th e book will be provided to the first registered guest to attend the progra m.
\nFor reasonable accommodations\, please contact the Cent er for Accessibility at 202-727-2142 or DCPLaccess@dc.gov. For ASL or tact ile interpretation\, please allow at least seven (7) days notice.
\nIn this joyous collection of essays about histo rically Black colleges and universities\, alumni both famous and up-and-co ming write testimonials about the schools and experiences that shaped thei r lives and made them who they are today.
\nEdited by the host of NP R&rsquo\;s Weekend Edition Sunday\, Ayesha Rascoe&mdash\;with a distinguis hed and diverse set of contributors including Oprah Winfrey\, Stacey Abram s\, and Branford Marsalis\, HBCU Made illuminates and celebrates the exper ience of going to a historically Black college or university. This book is for proud alumni\, their loved ones\, current students\, and anyone consi dering an HBCU.
\nThe first book featuring famous alumni sharing per sonal accounts of the Black college experience\, HBCU Made offers a series of warm\, moving\, and candid personal essays about the schools that nurt ured and educated them. The contributors write about how they chose their HBCU\, their first days on campus\, the dynamic atmosphere of classes wher e students were constantly challenged to do their best\, the professors wh o devoted themselves to the students\, the marching bands and majorettes a nd their rigorous training.
\nFor some\, the choice to attend an HBC U was an easy one\, as they followed in the footsteps of their parents or siblings. For others\, it was a carefully considered step away from a pred ominantly white institution to be educated in a place where they would nev er have to justify their presence. And for some authors here\, it was an H BCU that took them in and cared for them like family\, often helping them to overcome a rough patch.
\nFor all\, the pride in their choice is abundantly clear. HBCU Made is a perfect gift for each generation of prosp ective students and brand new alumni to come. \;
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Ayesha Rascoe is the host
of NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday and weekend episodes of Up First Prior to
her role as host\, Rascoe was a White House Correspondent. She covered th
ree presidential administrations. As a part of the White House team\, she
was also a regular on the NPR Politics Podcast.
Before joining NPR \, Rascoe spent the first decade of her career at Reuters\, rising from a news assistant to an energy reporter to eventually covering the White Hous e. While at Reuters\, Rascoe covered some of the biggest energy and enviro nmental stories of the past decade\, including the 2010 BP oil spill.
\ nShe&rsquo\;s a proud graduate of Howard University.
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\nNikole Hannah-Jon es is an award-winning investigative reporter who covers civil ri ghts and racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine and the Knight C hair in Race and Journalism at Howard University where she is the founding director of the Center for Journalism &\; Democracy. \;
\nHe r reporting has earned her the Pulitzer Prize\, the MacArthur &ldquo\;Geni us&rdquo\; Grant\, the Knight Award for Public Service\, the Peabody Award \, two George Polk awards and the National Magazine Award three times. She is a Society of American Historians Fellow and a member of the Academy of Arts &\; Sciences. \;
\nNikole got her first letter to the e ditor published at just 11 years old and she became hooked on journalism w hen she joined her high school newspaper and began writing about students like her\, who were bused across town as part of a voluntary school desegr egation program\, winning her very first journalism award from the Iowa Hi gh School Press Association. \;
\nHer heroes are the race beat r eporters\, such as Ida B. Wells\, Ethel Payne\, Simeon Booker and Claude S itton\, whose fearless coverage helped move this nation closer to its prom ise.
\nPrior to joining The New York Times\, Nikole worked as an inv estigative reporter at ProPublica in New York City\, where she spent three years chronicling the way official policy created and maintains segregati on in housing and schools. Before that\, she reported for the largest dail y newspaper in the Pacific Northwest\, The Oregonian in Portland\, Ore.\, where she covered numerous beats\, including demographics\, the census and county government.
\nNikole started her journalism career covering the majority-black Durham Public Schools for The News &\; Observer in R aleigh\, N.C. During her three years there\, she wrote extensively on issu es of race\, class\, school resegregation and equity.
\nNikole is a native Iowan\, a child produced by the hopes of both the Great Migration a nd those who migrated from foreign shores. She has also lived in Indiana\, Georgia\, North Carolina and Oregon. Now she is Bed-Stuy fly in Brooklyn.
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