Why Kamala Harris is at the HBCU Howard University on election night.
This is the first time in modern history that a presidential election watch party will be on a college campus, university officials said.Vice President Kamala Harris at the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. annual convention in Dallas, Wednesday, July 10, 2024. Vice President Harris has been a member of the sorority since she was a student at Howard University.
This is the first time in modern history that a presidential election watch party will be on a college campus, Howard President Ben Vinson III said in an email to the community last week.Harris graduated from Howard with a bachelor’s degree in political science and economics in 1986. She’s described her college years as the most formative of her life.. The Harris-Walz campaign rented space on campus for the private event that will not be accessible to the public.
The private research university has 14 schools and colleges, offering 143 programs of study. It produces more African-American Ph.D. recipients than any other university in the country.Alumni include Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, novelist and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, civil rights lawyer Vernon Jordan and actor Chadwick Boseman.Howard is one of more than 100 historically Black colleges and universities, known as HBCUs, across the country.
These institutions are open to any student regardless of race or ethnicity but tend to serve mostly Black students.The largest HBCU in the state is St. Philip’s College, a community college in San Antonio, with more than 14,000 students.Others include Huston-Tillotson and Texas Southern universities in Houston; Wiley University in Marshall; and Texas College in Tyler.
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