Shaw University, Continuing my NC Black History Tour
It is black history month and earlier this month, I challenged myself to highlight one story a day locally here in the Raleigh, North Carolina. In the process of looking for story ideas, I have learned so much about the Tar Heel state. But, I'm not going to achieve that goal of a story a day. Why? the same reason why I decided to do a Project 52 instead of a Project 365. Anyway, I have a list stories I'd like to highlight and places I'd like to visit. So, I'm going to extend this project into at least March and April. So, let's get to today's local black history factoid/gem: Shaw University. Let's be clear and honest: I love HBCU's. I graduated from an HBCU (Florida A&M Univ.) I grew up in an area that was void of any HBCU's although -- as I wrote last year-- New Haven almost had an HBCU. I ...