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Second annual detroit black college expo set for this weekend: what to know, expo is free, scholarships and cash prizes will be offered.

Kayla Clarke , Senior Web Producer

DETROIT – The second annual Detroit Black College Expo Presented by Comerica Bank is set for this weekend.

It takes place Saturday (Sept. 24) from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Seniors, Juniors and college transfer students meet one-on-one with HBCUs and a variety of other colleges and universities to get educational resources.

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Everyone is welcome to this event and it is for students of all ages.

  • When? Sept. 24, 2022, from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.
  • Where? Wayne State University at the Student Center
  • Cost? Free admission but parking is $8.50
  • How to sign up? Click here to register.
  • COVID protocols? Click here to complete online screening.
  • Want a scholarship? Click here to register.

Guests to Wayne State University must complete online screening before coming to campus. They will scan the results on the iPads posted at the entrance to the Student Center. Masks are recommended.

Students have to bring copies of their transcripts. ACT or SAT test scores are not necessary, but you should bring them if you have them.

Application fees will be waived and scholarships will be offered. Cash prizes will also be offered.

The expo runs from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. and an after-show runs from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. There will be a Step Show and a “Dance Off” for cash hosted by celebrity ambassadors.

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Black College Expo: Showcasing Over 50 HBCUs for Minority Students

Last Updated on January 22, 2024

Every year, from September to April, the Black College Expo goes to fourteen cities and shows off more than 50 of the 104 historically black colleges and universities in the United States. The National College Resources Foundation (NCRF) made the Expo so that students of color could talk to college admissions officers from some of the best HBCUs in the country. Since 1999, NCRF has helped low-income students get more than $1 billion in scholarships and grants. This has given more than 400,000 students the chance to go to college.

2023-2024 Black College Expo dates and locations

New York Expo Location: Medgar Evers College Date: September 23, 2023

Detroit, MI Expo Location: Huntington Place – Downtown Date: September 30, 2023

Sacramento, CA Expo Location: Sacramento State University  Date: October 28, 2023

Seattle, WA Expo Location: Seattle School District Date: November 4, 2023

Dallas/Fort Worth, TX Expo Location: Wilkerson-Greines Activities Center Date: November 11, 2023

Houston, TX Expo  Location: NRG Center Date: November 18, 2023

San Diego, CA Expo Location: Bayview Church Date: February 8, 2024

Los Angeles, CA Expo Location: Los Angeles Convention Center Date: February 10, 2024

Oakland, CA Expo Location: Oakland Marriott City Centre Date: February 17, 2024

Miami, FL Expo Location: Florida Memorial University Date: February 24, 2024

D.C./Maryland Expo Location: Walter E. Washington Convention Center Date: March 2, 2024

North Carolina Expo Location: Johnson C. Smith University Date: March 6, 2024

Atlanta, GA Expo Location: Cobb Galleria Date: March 9, 2024

Chicago, IL Expo Location: Chicago State University Date: April 6, 2024

Why Should I Attend the Expo?

  • If You Are The First In Your Family To Attend College:  The Expo was designed to provide guidance and financial assistance to minority students from underserved and underrepresented communities. According to the NCRF,  “over 90% are from low- to moderate-income families, most of whom do not know how to navigate the college admissions process.” “Black College Expo demystifies the college and career planning process.”
  • If you want to know how to apply to college, get financial aid, and plan for your future career:  During the Expo, high school students can go to seminars to learn more about college life and possible careers.
  • If You Are Looking for Scholarship Opportunities:  The NCRF College Expo scholarship essay contest is open to high school juniors and seniors every year to help students get into college.
  • If you want to talk to someone from the admissions office:  There will be people from dozens of HBCUs who work in college admissions looking for smart, hardworking students to attend their schools. Many of these colleges and universities will let applicants in right away if they meet their admissions requirements.

How can I prepare?

  • Bring your high school transcripts and SAT/ACT score reports with you to submit your applications to admissions representatives at the event; you could get your application fees waived and get accepted into your dream school on the spot! Many schools also offer on-the-spot college scholarships to qualified applicants.
  • If you are interested in joining a college marching band, you should bring your instrument to the expo and be prepared to audition!
  • If you are a college student who is looking for a job or an internship, the Expo will host a job fair that will help you connect to potential employers! Bring your resume and be prepared to interview for your favorite positions.

How Much Does It Cost?

Most of the time, it's free to get in. Tickets can cost as little as $7–$10 in some places, and you can get a discount if you buy your tickets with a group of 15 or more people. 

Dates & locations are subject to change. Visit the following link to sign up on the NCR Foundation website to reserve your spot: https://www.thecollegeexpo.org/ncrf-events/events

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Re-opening Michigan's only HBCU: What Pensole Lewis means for Detroit

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DETROIT (WXYZ) — Each week this month on 7 Action News, we’re taking an inside look at the impact of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs.

HBCUs are higher education institutions in the U.S. largely founded before the Civil Rights Act. They were designed to offer opportunities to Black students where they didn’t exist in segregated white colleges.

Today, HBCUs are some of the most celebrated and respected schools in the country.

This May, Michigan’s first and only HBCU, Lewis College of Business, will re-open as Pensole Lewis College of Business and Design. The industrial design-focused school will offer unique masterclasses, internships, and job training to 300 students in its first semester.

“There’s no website that you can go to right now and research Black designers,” said Pensole Lewis’ president, Dr. D’Wayne Edwards. That’s something he’s confident Pensole Lewis can change, at least for the City of Detroit.

Lewis College of Business, first day of class in Detroit.

It’s already something he's worked to improve on the west coast, where he opened Pensole Footwear Design Academy after his success as a shoe designer.

Edwards wants to fill what he sees as a gap in Detroit’s creative industry; Black talent. He wants to see more of it represented, and more opportunity for young Black creatives.

To fully understand Edwards’ vision for the school’s second act, first, we have to understand the vision of its original founder, Violet T. Lewis.

In the midst of the Great Depression, she founded a college designed for Black women seeking secretary skills. Some of its first graduates landed jobs at companies like Ford, General Motors, Chrysler, and Michigan Bell. Companies where Black people were not then employed.

“Her vision was a reality,” said Violet Ponders, the granddaughter of Violet T. Lewis.

“The first Blacks you find in most of the major corporations in this area came from Lewis College of Business, or Lewis Business College at that point,” she said.

Violet T. Lewis

The latter was founded first in Indianapolis in 1928. With a $50 loan, a determined young Lewis bought several used typewriters, and started the Lewis Business College, at one point even running it out of her home.

The Wilberforce University graduate had previously taken a job as a secretary to the president at Selma University in Alabama, which allowed Lewis a look at the inner workings of running a college.

“She was looking for a way to employ African Americans. That was always her goal. Beyond employment, she was looking for her students to develop their own businesses,” Violet Ponders told Action News.

We sat down with Violet and her sister, Stefeyne Ponders, to talk about their grandmother’s legacy.

“Her formula for success was that you employ yourself and at least one other person,” Violet told Action News.

She remembered her grandmother having two very distinct sides; there was 'Mama TV' as they affectionately called her, and then there was Violet T. Lewis the serious businesswoman, who they knew didn’t repeat her instructions.

Lewis passed away in the late 60s after a battle with cancer.

They also remember their grandmother throwing the best parties, ones attended by both attorneys and janitors.

Everyone in Lewis’ circle celebrated with her, they said. And she was determined to celebrate their successes too.

Just before 1940, Lewis opened a Detroit branch of the school, and it’s the Motor City where the Lewis College of Business really took off. Over the years thousands of men and women graduated from the school, going on to successful careers in business. Many of them stayed in touch with Lewis.

Faculty and alumni became like family, said the younger Violet, who is named for her grandmother. Both she and Stefeyne followed in their grandmother's footsteps, becoming educators themselves.

“You just didn’t learn how to type and do shorthand. She taught you etiquette," Violet said. "She taught you how to answer the phone. I think both Stefeyne and I both learned to answer the phone in business-type format when we were children."

Violet Lewis was determined to give her students a well-rounded education, which often included business travel to Lansing and D.C. She also co-founded the Gamma Phi Delta Sorority, offering further chances to network and give back through philanthropy, something very important to her.

Gamma Phi Delta members. Lewis co-founded the sorority.

Keeping Violet’s vision in focus is critical for Dr. Edwards, who last fall announced that with the support of the Gilbert Family Foundation and Target as a corporate partner, he’d be re-opening the school, which closed in 2013.

“Marring her history with our small brief history, and then solving a massive need for corporations as it pertains to product design,” Edwards said.

“His vision is very similar to our grandmother’s. And that’s what sold Violet, myself, and Shirley my sister,” Stefeyne said. “He believes in excellence.”

Violet T. Lewis. Courtesy of Violet Ponders, her granddaughter.

Product and industrial design will be the focus of the new Pensole Lewis College of Business and Design.

Come May, the school will share space with the College of Creative Studies before it’s own facility in Detroit is finished.

“I have several students of mine that have left Michigan and moved to Oregon because that’s where they were able to have opportunity,” Edwards said. It’s something he hopes will change, now that students seeking an HBCU experience have an option closer to home.

He also see this benefiting Michigan corporations, by keeping creative talent here.

Lewis started the Lewis Business College with a $50 loan to purchases used typewriters

Once accepted, Pensole Lewis' first group of students will participate in a free five-week master class with Carharrt. It’s designers helped create the curriculum, something Edwards feels really sets this model apart.

“It’s like you have a real job for five weeks, but you’re being taught the way you would actually work at the corporations we’re partnering with,” he said.

The school has lined up similar programs with several other major companies including:

  • Procter and Gamble
  • Wolverine Worldwide
  • New Balance
  • Michael Kors
  • The North Face

“We create a curriculum based on, this is what it would take for you to get a job at this company. This is how you would work. As well as the company gets a chance to see these students over the course of five weeks and they have a better chance of making intelligent decisions based on who to bring them in as; as interns or as full time hires," Edwards said, noting that students will have an internship opportunity after the master class.

A traditional full 15-week semester will start in the fall, Edwards said, but enrollment for the introductory 5-week course opens Feb. 8.

To ensure that Lewis’ legacy is never far from thought, she’ll even be reflected in the school's aesthetic. It’s colors are now shades of Violet.

“She had this gift of making people think they could do the impossible, which for her was not impossible, it was possible,” Violet Ponders said.

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Breaking barriers: Michigan’s only Historically Black College set to reopen this spring

By: shanika p. carter - january 16, 2022 5:29 am.

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D’Wayne Edwards of PENSOLE and Don Tuski, president of the College for Creative Studies (CCS) | Courtesy photo

Even before the Pensole Lewis College of Business and Design debuts in Detroit on May 2, it is shattering records. 

The school will become the country’s first Historically Black College or University (HBCU) to ever reopen — and education leaders said the institution is poised to make Detroit an epicenter of design and champion Black designers in a design field that remains overwhelmingly white. (About 73% of those in the design industry are white and 3% are Black, according to the American Institute of Graphic Arts, a professional association for design.)

Founded by Violet T. Lewis, a nationally renowned Black businesswoman and educator, the school was originally known as the Lewis College of Business and operated in Detroit from 1939 to 2013. After it closed because of accreditation challenges, there were numerous attempts to reopen the school that received its HBCU designation in 1987.

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Now, it’s just a matter of months before Michigan’s first — and only — HBCU will welcome students to its campus at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit.

“I am tremendously excited about the reopening of Lewis College as Pensole Lewis College of Business and Design as an HBCU,” College for Creative Studies President Don Tuski said. “The impact will be great for Detroit and for many diverse students who will have another choice for design school.”

HBCUs were established in the 19th century to provide educational opportunities to people of African descent interested in obtaining undergraduate and graduate degrees but, because of systemic racism, not welcomed at existing public and private higher educational institutions. The majority of HBCUs originated between 1865 and 1900, with the greatest number starting in 1867 — two years after the Emancipation Proclamation . The majority, about 89%, of HBCUs are located in the southern United States. Currently, the closest ones to Michigan are in Illinois and Ohio.

The new higher education program at Pensole Lewis College of Business and Design is being crafted with D’Wayne Edwards, Founder of PENSOLE Design Academy in Portland, Ore. He is laying out plans for the school with his co-founding partners at the College for Creative Studies, the Gilbert Family Foundation and Target. The Pensole Lewis College of Business and Design will serve as the pipeline HBCU for career education and professional development in the design industry, a field in education that Edwards said is not accessible in existing HBCUs.

With more than 33 years of expertise as a trained footwear designer for several major brands, followed by a career in teaching and education, Edwards’ inspiration for taking on this initiative is to make design opportunities and career possibilities more accessible to people of color through education that combines design and business.

“As educators, we also have to do our part and provide learning opportunities that help redirect these young minds into opportunities that they feel they are a part of and want to be a part of,” Edwards said.

Over the past 12 years, PENSOLE Design Academy has played a major role in the sportswear industry to pull new, diverse talent in design, Edwards said. Upon learning of the Lewis Business College and its founder, Edwards researched and pursued the history of the college. He also connected with the real estate agent listing the location and the family of Lewis, the school’s founder, which led to the process of reopening the college. Pensole Lewis College will offer programs in design, sustainability, business, and STEM.

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Lewis founded the Lewis College of Business in Indiana in 1929. She moved the school, which was primarily for women, to Detroit in 1941. In 2018, then-Gov. Rick Snyder signed a bill sponsored by then-Sen. Ian Conyers (D-Detroit) renaming a portion of the John C. Lodge Freeway (M-10) in Detroit for Lewis.

Edwards admits that he had not previously heard of Lewis or the history of Lewis College, but he was drawn to her story and her entrepreneurial thinking. By blending design and business with the reinstatement of Pensole Lewis College, along with the relationships developed between the design industry and companies, Edwards said he is confident the institution will be sustainable and will increase racial diversity in both the participating companies and the design field.

Edwards added the feedback and support from the city of Detroit and the state have been positive.

“The state has embraced what we’re doing,” Edwards said.

At the end of December, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed House Bills 5447 and 5448 , which reestablish the Lewis College of Business as the Pensole Lewis College of Business and Design.

“I am proud to play a part in helping reopen the Pensole Lewis College of Business and Design in Detroit,” Whitmer said in a press statement. “I am committed to expanding educational opportunities for Michiganders across our state to put Michigan first.”  

State Rep. Joe Tate (D-Detroit), who co-sponsored both bills, noted there has been bipartisan support for the legislation, and Sen. Marshall Bullock (D-Detroit), chair of the Michigan Legislative Black Caucus, called the college’s reopening a “tremendous opportunity for Detroit and the Black community on so many levels.”

I am tremendously excited about the reopening of Lewis College as Pensole Lewis College of Business and Design as an HBCU. The impact will be great for Detroit and for many diverse students who will have another choice for design school.

– College for Creative Studies President Don Tuski

“I’m eager to see the ingenuity that will once again come from students at the Pensole Lewis College of Business and Design, as well as the future they envision for their communities,” Bullock said in a press statement.

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan also has thrown his support behind the college.

“As a predominantly Black city, this helps send a clear message that we are building one city, for everyone with opportunity for everyone,” Duggan said in a prepared statement.

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The annual Historically Black College and University Bus Tour exposes aspiring college students to the world of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in order to promote increased college attendance at these institutions of higher learning. Over 10 original partner HBCUs from Pennsylvania to Georgia are visited throughout the tour, and the majority of these institutions become the future academic homes of our college tour participants. Currently the tours service interested candidates in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Candidates are required to attend a series of preparatory workshops to strengthen their prospects for college admission.

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Joy   Matthews, CEO of The HBCU Kid™, is a native of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and a proud graduate of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. During her matriculation at UAPB, she also became a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

The inspiration to create The HBCU Kid™ grew from Joy’s  love for being actively involved in her community. Her mission is to use The HBCU Kid™   as a vehicle for educating prospective and current students, alumni, family, and friends about the challenges, opportunities, and achievements surrounding Historically Black Colleges and Universities. By focusing on early adolescents, Joy hopes to cultivate the next generation of HBCU leaders.

The HBCU Kid™   brand identity is inspired by her son  Bryson, former Little Mr. University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff 2013-14. The apparel  is designed not only to promote, educate, and inform others about  Historically Black Colleges and Universities, it is meant to be used as a symbol of pride for those who consider themselves  HBCU Kids.

As a sign of her commitment to the success of HBCUs around the country, Joy plans to donate a percentage of sales to HBCUs in the form of book scholarships.

“Where Education is acquired, where Heritage is embraced, and where Legacy is kept alive.” –   Joy   Matthews, CEO

“YOU CAN GO TO SCHOOL ANYPLACE, BUT NO SCHOOL WILL LOVE YOU AND TEACH YOU TO LOVE YOURSELF AND KNOW YOURSELF LIKE HILLMAN!”

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The HBCU Kid 2023 College Tours

The HBCU Kid’s college tours provide African-American students, parents, teachers, and counselors with the unique opportunity to visit multiple college campuses in a single trip. With more than 100 historically black colleges and universities in the United States, these multi-campus college tours give students a solid understanding of the history, culture, and traditions that have shaped the schools’ collective legacy, and a framework for comparison that will help them choose the right HBCU.

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Date: March 17-19, 2024

Grades: 6th-12th, hbcus:  american baptist college, fisk university, meharry medical college, and tennessee state university, final payment due march 1, 2024, $675 per student ($100 non-refundable deposit) , pay the full amount today or in installments.

All-inclusive tour includes:

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  • Transportation
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  • Museums and more
  • Departures from Little Rock, AR

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How are students supervised.

Students are closely supervised. Our staff includes CEO of The HBCU Kid, tour facilitators, and chaperones. Students are closely monitored from the time they   board the buses by chaperones at a ratio of 7-to-1. Students are accounted for, are required to participate in all activities, and must stay with the tour group at all times. Chaperones take attendance several times a day at every event site and perform room checks every evening. Once we arrive at the hotel, students are expected to remain in their rooms and are given instructions of what to do in the event someone becomes ill or has an emergency at night. Students are not allowed to have any visitors visit the hotel room. Chaperones greet students at the point of departure and remain with students until all students have been picked up once the group returns to the point of departure. We only provide single-sex lodging.  

What should I expect on my trip?

The HBCU Kid wants the students to have an opportunity to engage in hands-on, interactive activities that focus on academic, leadership, personal, and college readiness development. Meeting face-to-face with admissions counselors. Gaining exposure to college life. As well as giving back to the community by volunteering. Through our creative formats, students leave with a plethora of new skills and knowledge to help them build toward a successful future.  

What does the fee cover?

The fee covers transportation, lodging, breakfast, lunch, dinner, and The HBCU Kid t-shirt. Students will need additional money for souvenirs and other incidentals. The total cost of this trip is located within each tour registration. There is a non-refundable deposit fee required to reserve your child’s spot . The full balance  is due on or before Final Payment Date. There will be no refunds issued four weeks prior to departure date. Please be advised that if you need to cancel for any reason, you will forfeit your deposit and any money paid towards the trip. The HBCU Kid has agreed to issue a credit in the event cancellation is inevitable.

Are there a limited number of spaces?

Generally, yes there are a limited number of spaces available for each event, based upon the mode(s) of transportation that have been selected. Registrations are processed on a first-come, first-served basis.

Where will students stay while on the trip?

Students and chaperones reside with accredited hotels with ratings of 3-stars or better. In most instances, groups stay in suite-style hotels which comfortably sleep 3 to 4 students per room. Students are generally allowed to select their roommates. Private rooms, Doubles, & Quads are available upon request for an additional cost.  

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Participants will be provided a full detailed itinerary once payment is made in full and/or 7 days prior to departure.

Are meals included?

Yes, meals are included. Each student will have the opportunity to eat breakfast each morning at the hotel during the allotted times ONLY. The cost of breakfast each day (with the exception of in-route meals) is included in the cost of the trip. If a student misses breakfast, there will not be an opportunity to eat until lunchtime. Therefore, we advise that students plan to wake up early enough to shower, dress, and eat breakfast before we depart for the day’s activities. Students are also welcomed to keep snacks and bottled waters in their backpacks to enjoy during the day. Lunch and dinner venues are subject to change. We typically choose meal venues that allow students to have many choices and options for meal selections.  

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Vegetarian options are always available. If your student has food allergies or needs to avoid certain foods for health or religious reasons, please indicate it on your STUDENT REGISTRATION FORM or contact our office.

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HBCU Tours is a unique experience that provides students and families with the opportunity to explore historically black colleges and universities. The tours allow individuals to gain a deeper understanding of what these institutions have to offer and the impact they have made in education and beyond. Whether you are a high school student considering your options for college, or a family looking to support a future student, HBCU Tours will provide you with valuable insights and memories that will last a lifetime.

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Thank you to everyone who attended our 2023 HBCU Virtual Tour! For those who were unable to join us live, please enjoy this recap video of the event. We had representatives from 10 amazing HBCUs share more about their schools, programs, campus life and application process.

The fall tour registration is now open! We will be hosting another HBCU tour event on October 16th featuring different HBCUs than in the Spring. Don't miss your chance to explore all of your options.

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XI PHI's 2023 BLACK COLLEGE TOUR

Xi phi returns to campus-based black college tour in 2023.

Xi Phi Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. continues its mission of providing opportunities for scholars to attend historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), with its Annual Omega Black College Tour (OBCT) on February 21, 2023.

The tour is transitioning from the six-week virtual program that was sponsored in 2022, to an on campus program in 2023. The tour will include several of the nation’s top HBCUs including Morgan State, Bowie State, Virginia Union, Virginia State, Hampton University, Norfolk State, Delaware State and Howard University.

As with previous tours, the program seeks to promote the benefits of a college experience at an HBCU, while placing an emphasis on them being essential to helping scholars compete in the 21st Century’s knowledge-based society.

“It is hard to imagine a time when the need to produce students who can excel in STEM-related occupations has been greater,” said John L. Staton, Founder of OBCT. “To be career-ready in our knowledge-based society, student learning must go beyond mastery of core subjects and include 21st century knowledge and skills like critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and technology literacy.”

The six-week virtual program comprises several of the nation’s top HBCUs who hosted sessions on their respective missions and academic offerings, in addition to providing information on tuition, scholarships and financial aid. Schools on the 2022 tour included St. Augustine, Delaware State, Morgan State, Hampton, North Carolina A&T, Morehouse, Spelman, Clark Atlanta, Bowie State, and Winston Salem State. Xi Phi will also award two $500 scholarships for the best essays on how to mitigate gun violence, or recommendations for redesigning high school curriculums to help African-American scholars better prepare for college.

XI PHI's 2024 BLACK COLLEGE TOUR

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Xi Phi Chapter's renowned Omega Black College Tour (OBCT) officially returned to campuses this year, offering high school scholars a unique and immersive experience. Following three years of curtailed programming because of the pandemic, the tour transitioned back to its traditional format, while adhering to all necessary COVID-19 precautions.

This year, participants had the privilege of stepping onto the grounds of some of the nation's leading Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), like Howard University, Hampton University, Spelman College, Morehouse College, Clark Atlanta University, Norfolk State University, Winston-Salem State University, South Carolina State University, Claflin University, Johnson C. Smith University, Morgan State University, Delaware State University, Livingstone College, and Morris Brown College.

The OBCT goes beyond a typical campus tour, by offering intense history- based workshops, while creating a sense of empowerment and belonging. Each HBCU dedicates time to showcasing its unique mission while highlighting its diverse academic offerings. Additionally, students gain valuable insights into various financial aid options, including scholarships and grants that are crucial to making these institutions more affordable.

The Omega Black College Tour recognizes HBCUs critical role in shaping future generations of leaders. "This is not simply an education, it's an act of reclamation of self in a world that would deny the black experience," says Donnell Bolden Basileus of Xi Phi Chapter. "HBCU scholars build on the accomplishments of those who dared to dream and became successful in the face of unimaginable odds."

"For 165 years HBCUs - often with great difficulty - have not only survived and exceeded challenges to their existence but they have been highly successful with their goals of educating Black scholars while sharing emphasizing community service. The 2nd District proudly supports the mission of Xi Phi Chapter’s Omega Black College Tour throughout the fraternity nationally and presents it as an example of excellence to the Divine Nine," said Delrecole "Rico" Gales, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity’s 2nd District Representative.

Harry Watson II, CUP President, the nonprofit funding arm for OBCT stated many scholars received admittance to institutions such as NYU, Penn State, Villanova, and others, but their decisions to visit and enroll in HBCUs reflect the transformative power of an HBCU education. “This year marks our 38th college tour with over 2000 students participating since its inception, demonstrating our dedication

To support Xi Phi’s Omega Black College tour, click here: https://www.xiphichapter.org/cup.php and help deserving scholars take the first step toward their future by exploring the rich legacy and boundless possibilities HBCUs offer.

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The Xi Phi Chapter, Omega Psi Phi Black College Tour was founded in 1986 by John L. Staton, a career educator and administrator who spent more than 35 years with the New York City Department of Education. John was initiated into the fraternity at Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio in 1966. Since it was founded more than 1,500 students have been on the tour.

Staton wanted to dispel the myth of HBCUs being inferior institutions, so he created a platform to showcase the countless graduates who had become many of the world’s most recognized and accomplished persons in their fields. The platform would also introduce students to college life at an Historically Black College and University (HBCU).

He also believed that organizing a tour of these campuses would put the transformative power of a college education on full display, and help students dream beyond their current circumstances, while showing them a rigorous but supportive and nurturing environment where they could flourish.

“I’ve come to realize that the times I’m outside of my element is when I’ve experienced the most growth, so it’s really important to me to get students out of their comfort zone and expose them to a world far outside the bubble in which they live,” Staton said.

The program is at its best when students buy into the fact that their current circumstances aren’t an impediment to achieving their goals according to Staton. “We attempt to spark their intellectual curiosity and surround them with students from similar backgrounds who are on track to graduate during every campus we visit. On the last tour we reinforced the campus visits with a one-day trip to various memorials in Washington, D.C. so that they were bombarded by even more success stories about world renown African-Americans with the goal of searing into their young minds that success in whatever they choose to do is within their reach,” he concluded.

To learn more about the Omega Black College Tour and its diverse activities, contact [email protected].

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According to the Pew Charitable Trust, when foster youth leave high school and do not enroll in college, within two to four years, many experience unemployment, go on public assistance, battle homelessness, or become involved in the criminal justice system. The outcomes for foster youth who do attend college are equally as dire. Less than 3% of former foster youth ever graduate from college without the support of a warm and caring individual.

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, colleges and universities continue to struggle to graduate low-income students. While 66% of the wealthiest students complete their studies and graduate, only 16% of low-income students graduate from college.

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This Year’s Results

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Nationally, less than 1% of high school students receive full-ride scholarships

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64% of EST students received full-ride scholarships to attend Tennessee State/Meharry Meical College, Tuskeegee University, Northwestern, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Santa Clara, Pepperdine and Notre Dame.

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Our top student was admitted to the prestigious accelerated medical degree program at Tennessee State and Meharry Medical College with a full-ride scholarship that includes tuition, housing, meals, books and a $1500 stipend. Her career goal is to become a neurosurgeon.

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Our seniors competed against 2200 students for 93 Posse Foundation leadership scholarships. Three were selected to be Posse scholars.

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All the youth in the foster care system that we worked with this year (N=9) were accepted into four-year colleges.

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UCLA received 149,799 applications this year—a record year for applications. Four EST students were admitted.

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Nationally, only 2% of the 2.2 million high school students taking the SAT receive a perfect score. One EST student received a perfect 800 on the math portion of the SAT after completing our summer school program.

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Mariah Jameson

Mariah’s college journey began in 2009 when she graduated high school as a single mother in the foster care system..

 Though it was difficult at times to keep everything going, she knew how important education was. Her experience led her to pursue a degree and career in Social Work. In 2016, Mariah, along with her kids, experienced homelessness.  But this made her even more determined to succeed. Education was the way to a better life.

“I  met Dr. Delahoussaye while I was on a tour of HBCUs with another group. But we got to talking, and we began to build a relationship. Visiting Clark Atlanta, I fell in love with the campus and the school. I was determined to go there.” Through her connection with Dr. Delahoussaye and EST, she was able to find the money for school through scholarships. She also made connections within the school that helped her find the funds necessary to continue.“COVID was a challenging time for us. The school had to shut down the dorms, and suddenly I was without a place to live. I didn’t have anywhere to go. Dr. Delahoussaye reached out to some donors who helped me get the money for housing.  If it weren’t for them, I don’t know how my kids and I would have been able to continue.”

Like many students, the shift to distance learning wasn’t easy and hadn’t prepared students for online learning. “Fortunately, the housing I obtained had Internet access included. That helped financially, and of course, I wouldn’t have been able to keep up with my schoolwork without it. EST donors were the lifeline I needed.”

Through her studies, Mariah started working at a detox facility for girls and is currently working at a group home for boys. Her experiences have helped her make an impact on the kids she works with daily. “I get questions all the time about college and what it’s like to be a college student.  I can relate to them and what they’re going through.” She helps them identify college programs or careers that they might be interested in, and of course, her own story helps inspire them to see that a college career is possible.

Mariah is finishing up her studies in the coming academic year and is planning on going into the Accelerated Master’s Program in Social Work at Clark Atlanta. Less than 3% of former foster youth graduate from college. We are pleased and excited to share with you that Mariah will graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree in December 2021. Thank you so much for being an EST College Access Program donor, and for helping students like Mariah earn their college degree.

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Charles Johnson

For charles johnson, a tour of historically black colleges was the first step of a life-changing journey..

Yasmin and Greg Delahoussaye took Charles and other students to universities, museums, and historical sites in the South. “It’s hard to put it into words the meaning of it, how it affected me,” Charles recalled. “It was just a great experience. It was overwhelming too, in a good way.” That experience motivated Charles to apply to Clark Atlanta University, a university he had not heard about before the tour. But navigating the admissions and financial aid processes was not easy for Charles, who is a first-generation college student and a former foster child raised in Oakland.

 The Delahoussayes stepped in to help with a commitment that left Charles in awe. “Dr. Delahoussaye has just been great, using her networks to get me connected,” Charles said. “She went above and beyond.” The Delahoussayes connected Charles with help in the financial aid office; they helped find him a job; and they assisted him with locating affordable housing. To make his transition from the Bay Area to Atlanta easier, the Delahoussayes created a circle of support—alumni mentors and Clark Atlanta students. “She connected me with some great people that I still talk to this day to help me get around,” Charles said. Charles, who transferred from College of Alameda, is now a junior majoring in social work. His goal is to work with foster youth, to provide them with the kind of support he could have used during his time in the system. As he works to achieve his goals as a student at Clark Atlanta, Charles knows he is not alone. When he needs assistance, EST is just a phone call away. “It’s been tough, don’t get me wrong,” Charles said. “But they just made it easier. I know a lot of people don’t have this support.”

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Laniyah Cacho

On her journey to earn a nursing degree, est is a lifeline..

In the summer following her sophomore year, Laniyah Cacho faced financial challenges that threatened to end her studies at Tuskegee University. “I was so stressed out,” she recalled. “I didn’t know what I was going to do. I didn’t know if I was going to be able to come back.” Then Laniyah realized she didn’t have to face those challenges alone. The resourceful student reached out to her mentors at Educational Student Tours for help. In a matter of months, Yasmin and Gregory Delahoussaye tapped their network of donors for support, helped Laniyah apply for scholarships, and helped make housing arrangements. 

“Dr. Delahoussaye has done everything in her power to make sure I made it back for the fall semester,” Laniyah said. By the start of the fall semester, EST had raised $10,000—enough to cover Laniyah’s fees and other expenses. Laniyah was ready to continue working toward her goal of earning a bachelor’s degree and becoming a registered nurse. This is the role EST plays in the lives of many students who take the tour. Laniyah’s father is a strong supporter of her education, but the family needed more. EST provides students like Laniyah with ongoing support and mentoring. When Laniyah was 7-years-old, her mother was killed by her boyfriend. Laniyah’s father raised her in a South Los Angeles neighborhood near Manual Arts High School, and she is the first in her family to attend college. Laniyah has thrived at Tuskegee. She sees her future success through the lens of family and community. When Laniyah earns her degree, her siblings will see that they can achieve as well. Laniyah plans to use her nursing skills to improve the health outcomes of African Americans. EST is helping her transform her dreams into reality. “I’m so grateful for everything [Educational Student Tours is] doing for me,” Laniyah said.

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Historically Black college plans to reopen in Detroit under a new name and mission

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The historically Black college, Lewis College of Business, plans to reopen in Detroit under a new name and mission.

The college will be located in the College for Creative Studies’ A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education until its permanent home in Detroit is selected and developed, according to a press release.

Now called the PENSOLE Lewis College of Business and Design, the school will offer programs in design, sustainability, business and STEM in collaboration with the College for Creative Studies. There will also be a special focus on shoe design.

“The diversity of thought is what creates innovation. I really do hope what we're doing with (The College for Creative Studies) inspires other colleges in states with HBCUs to do the same,” D’Wayne Edwards said, who is the founder of PENSOLE Design Academy, a shoe design school in Portland, Oregon.

He is also the controlling stockholder of the previously closed Detroit-based HBCU, Lewis College of Business. He founded PENSOLE Design Academy with the lack of Black and brown designers in the industry in mind. Edwards said he is inspired by the college’s founder, Violet T. Lewis.

“We just want to make sure we do right by Violet, and her family and the legacy that Lewis College created, we want to continue it and then elevate it even further and bring Violet back to life,” Edwards said.

The PENSOLE Lewis College of Business and Design will request authorization from the Michigan Department of Education to operate as an educational corporation.

This will be the only historically Black college operating in Michigan. Edwards said the majority of the cost to attend will be free. Enrollment will begin in December and the college will open in March 2022.

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Michigan's only Black college reopens with inaugural design class, high hopes

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Detroit — Isaiah Walker has spent the past decade trying to channel his passion for design into a career.

After graduating from Southfield Lathrup High School in 2013, he attended Oakland Community College and worked locally in luxury retail before moving to New York City to work as a junior buyer and intern as a brand director. 

A pivotal moment came for Walker after he moved back to Michigan in 2020 and heard the state's only Black college was being revived with a focus on design. He applied, was accepted into the inaugural class and last week became one of four students to get a summer internship with Carhartt, the global premium workwear brand headquartered in Dearborn.

"What I hope to gain from the internship," said Walker, 27, "is knowledge, better connections inside the industry and hopefully a full-time job with Carhartt." 

Nearly a decade after Michigan’s only Black college closed, a new chapter of the school began last month when it reopened with its first class of 30 students and a new mission to partner with industries to create a pipeline of job-ready workers trained in design.

The Pensole Lewis College of Business and Design  quietly opened during the first week of May. It resurrected the former Lewis College of Business, Michigan's only Historically Black College and University that had operated for 74 years in Detroit training young Black women in business skills before closing in 2013. 

The school was brought back to life in one of the nation's largest majority-black cities, which is in the midst of its own revival, and aims to offer educational opportunities, especially for the African American community.

It's unique because of the school's format and the prospect it could become the nation's only HBCU to close and then reopen.

Leading the school's renaissance is D'Wayne Edwards, one of the first Black individuals nationally to design athletic shoes. He is operating with the financial support of Detroit investors and philanthropists, Dan and Jennifer Gilbert, through the Gilbert Family Foundation, along with Target and other corporations that are partnering with the school to make tuition free for students. 

It is temporarily operating under the auspices of Detroit's College for Creative Studies until the federal government recognizes it as one of the nation's 100 HBCUs .   The school needs to grant degrees before it becomes an HBCU so Edwards, the college's president,   has been working with leaders in Detroit, Lansing and Washington, D.C., to get the designation.

For now, the Pensole Lewis College is focusing on training diverse students in design through a model Edwards created and used at PENSOLE Design Academy, a Portland, Oregon-based education institution for 12 years.

Many institutions offer an education in fashion design, said Edwards. But few offer training in performance and functional footwear and apparel design like the Pensole Lewis College does.

His model also differs by working directly with industry leaders to help create intensive training known as "master classes" for students to learn the culture of the company and become a pipeline of workers, Edwards said. The companies co-create the curriculum and pay the $13,500 tuition of each student and the lodging for those who come to the college from outside Metro Detroit. 

"Our curriculum is designed the way kids would work at a company," Edwards said. "The way that we teach is the way that they will work. Our environment is more like a design studio environment, less like an educational environment."

At the end of the master classes, the students often will secure internships and jobs with the company that sponsors the training because company officials have spent more time with prospective workers beyond traditional interviews that are more limited, Edwards said. The companies are also looking for diverse talent.

"You could look at it as a six- to 12-week job interview," Edwards said. "The company is able to see the work habits, they are able to get more of a glimpse of the whole person. All of our programming is geared toward kids getting jobs."

Students come from afar

Eleven students from Detroit and 19 others from across the country participated in the inaugural Pensole Lewis College master class .

Classes are being held in the Icon Building along the Detroit River until a permanent location can be found. In the evening, students continue their work at the College for Creative Studies' A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education on Milwaukee Avenue in Detroit.  

The first class was   sponsored   by Carhartt with a focus on footwear and clothing design. Other brands that are expected to sponsor master classes in the future include top footwear brands such as Nike, Jordan, Adidas, New Balance, Timberland, Vans and Asics and along with apparel companies such as North Face and J.Crew, Edwards said.

The students from outside Michigan came from places such as the Caribbean, Canada and England, and stayed at the Hotel St. Regis Detroit in the New Center neighborhood during the five-week course. While the class included five women, most of the students were African American men.

Among them was Detroit resident Trevon Fleming who has been wanting to attend Pensole since he saw the academy on social media in 2014 when it was operating in Portland, and he was studying clothing design while attending a now-defunct art institute in Novi.

When he heard that PENSOLE was relocating to Michigan, he applied and got accepted. He said learned from elite designers and teachers about designing functional workwear shoes during the five-week class. 

"My opportunities now are limitless," said Fleming, 29, a freelance designer. "This is going to be a brand new journey, a brand new outlook for the city."

For Carhartt, the company's involvement was natural since it started a design project with Edwards at the Portland school, said Ben Ewy, the brand's vice president of global product design, research and development. 

"We were so impressed with the work they did, when we heard they were going to be restarting the Lewis College, now the Pensole Lewis College, we said we have to be involved," Ewy said. "We believe in them and their mission."

'Changed family lives'

The leaders behind the Pensole Lewis College had similar paths.

Violet Lewis, a native of Ohio, founded the original college in 1928 in Indianapolis because she wanted to create a place where students, particularly Black women, could get a high-quality business education because opportunities were lacking. She eventually closed the Indianapolis school after opening the Detroit campus of the Lewis College of Business in Midtown in 1939.

The Lewis College of Business originally offered Black women courses in secretarial skills but expanded course offerings and became an accredited junior college and served as a pipeline for students to find jobs working for auto companies. The federal government designated the school an HBCU in 1987, and was one of three HBCUs founded by a woman. But the college closed in 2013 because of lack of funding, Edwards said.

"When the Lewis College first began, there were few very, very few Black secretaries and very, very few Black accountants,” said Violet Ponders, Lewis' granddaughter who also worked for the college beginning in 1976 and served in many roles including as one of the last interim presidents.

"It was created to serve that need for businesses," said Ponders, "but it was also created to provide training, which then provided a source of income, then changed family lives."

Edwards long wanted to work in design when he was growing up in Inglewood, California, southwest of Los Angeles, as the youngest of six children raised by a single mother.

He discovered he had a gift to draw when he was 10 and considered a path as an artist but then discovered design, particularly sneaker design.

"Growing up in the 80s, with no Google or Instagram or social media, I couldn't find other people who looked like me who did it," Edwards said.

He didn't go to college because he couldn't afford it and didn't know where to go. He graduated from high school, worked for a temporary service and then as a file clerk at LA Gear. He tried to get a design job, but they told him he needed a college degree.

LA Gear had suggestion boxes throughout the office, and Edwards started putting sketches in the boxes every day of athletic shoes. Six months later, the owner of the company called him into his office and offered him a design job. He was 19.

He discovered a few years later that he was the second Black footwear designer in the industry. He began working at Nike in 2000 as the design director for the Michael Jordan brand; he started getting emails from young people with sketches and questions about how to become a footwear designer.

He started guiding these young people and created a competition at Nike, Future Sole , to identify young people with talent who didn't have a chance to go to college. Over four years, close to 800,000 young people wanted to be part of the program.

Edwards wanted to do more of that work, so he left his shoe designer position in 2011. He created his model of teaching product design and started teaching with 41 students from around the globe. The University of Oregon hosted the course. 

"There were 800,000 kids who were just like me when I was young and growing up in Inglewood who wanted to design sneakers," Edwards said.

He partnered with ArtCenter in California, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Parsons School of Design in New York and taught his program to prove the concept, Edwards said. Eventually, he started his own academy in downtown Portland and began partnering with top brands in the region.

CCS President Donald Tuski met Edwards while he served as president of the Pacific Northwest College of Art and spoke with him about relocating to Detroit.

"He was doing something very special," Tuski said. “When I see something that is really important, that works, that helps students fulfill their dreams of becoming a designer, it made sense for me to stay in contact with D’Wayne.”

The collaboration with CCS was also important, Tuski said, because in order for the Pensole Lewis College to be an HBCU, the school needs to grant degrees. For now, CCS is the accredited institution under which Pensole Lewis College is operating. But the goal is for the school to eventually be operating on its own, he said.

Another who worked to persuade Lewis to move his design education model to Detroit was Allen Largin, creative and innovation director at Rock Ventures in Detroit.

Largin met Edwards when he was a Brighton High School sophomore and won the Nike competition that Edwards created to identify young talent. He kept in touch with Edwards over the years as he began a career in footwear design, then landed in his current position. Dan Gilbert — founder and chairman of Rocket Cos., which owns Rock Ventures — encouraged Largin to convince Edwards to move PENSOLE to Detroit.

Largin said he sent articles to Edwards to show him things were happening in Detroit. But he didn't get any movement until the 2020 killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, after which companies began pledging money to Black communities. Largin suggested that Gilbert's Rock families of companies match another founding partner's pledge to give Edwards the resources he needed to reopen the Lewis College of Business, and bring in the College for Creative Studies and get the blessing of the Lewis family.

"It was a perfect storm of everything coming together," Largin said. 

What pushed Edwards over the edge was when Largin mentioned the closed HBCU in Detroit. Edwards said he went online and read all the articles he could find about the college and the story behind Lewis finding the school and moving it to Detroit.

"It really resonated with me because we had a lot of similarities with trying to start our own school," Edwards said.

He also read how Lewis' family had unsuccessfully tried to reopen the school. Lewis got the family's support in reviving the school.

He discussed the idea with Tuski to bring the Lewis College back as a design-focused HBCU because the nation's other HBCUs have focused on business, law, engineering and other fields.

"Detroit is one of the most creative cities in America," Edwards said. "On top of that, being one of the cities with the highest black population in America, it just felt like it had to be here."

'A real beacon'

Laura Grannemann, executive director of the Gilbert Family Foundation, said the foundation has been working with Edwards for a couple of years to bring what she described as an "innovative" and "internationally renowned" program to Detroit to support local institutions, and bring back an HBCU.

As one of the two founding partners of the Pensole Lewis College, along with Target, the Gilbert Family Foundation hopes to attract other philanthropic and private partners. Grannemann said the details of the financial commitment are still being worked out but said it would be at least a five-year financial commitment to ensure Edwards could scale the program to bring in as many students as possible. 

The program is aiming to draw upward of 800 students a year eventually, according to Grannemann. 

"It’s a different model to get students critical access to education and get students on a pathway to direct job opportunities across the country," she said. "Our hope is hundreds of thousands will take advantage of these educational opportunities. … We think this can be a real beacon for the city of Detroit."

The Pensole Lewis College will host the master classes for the next year and a half under the College of Creative Studies, Lewis said. It will also offer associate degrees, planned for fall 2023, when the  Pensole Lewis College hopes to receive federal recognition as the only HBCU in Michigan.

In December, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed legislation to pave the way for the HBCU recognition.

U.S. Department of Education officials didn't offer a timeline for a decision. But the secretary of education would approve the designation, which makes a school eligible for federal funding.

When the Pensole Lewis School gets HBCU recognition, federal law requires it be a junior or community college or offer an educational pathway to a bachelor's degree. It also must be accredited or pre-accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency or association.

The Pensole Lewis College will be offering associate degrees in product design, business and eventually in manufacturing, Edwards said.

Edwards is planning a community open house to see the space where students are taking masterclasses inside the Icon Building on Sept. 25, the same day that Lewis opened the original school in 1928.

"We want to do it differently," Edwards said. "It's not about a kid coming here to earn a degree. It's about a kid acquiring the knowledge they need to get a job. Our goal is to partner with industry to become that pipeline."

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Michigan’s only Historically Black College returning

The hbcu is expected to open in 2022.

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LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - Eight years ago Michigan’s first and only Historically Black College shut down. The Lewis College of Business and Design in Detroit, an institution that had been in operation since 1939, was thought to be closed for good until a bill signed this week changed that.

Tuesday, Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed House Bill 5447 and 5448 to facilitate the reopening of the Lewis College of Business as the Pensole Lewis College of Business and Design.

The Lewis College of Business operated in Detroit until 2013. The college originally received its Historically Black College (HBCU) designation in 1987, and it will request and HBCU recognition from the state when it reopens.

“I am proud to play a part in helping reopen the Pensole Lewis College of Business and Design in Detroit,” said   Governor Whitmer. “I am committed to expanding educational opportunities for Michiganders across our state to put Michigan first.”

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Dr. D’Wayne Edwards is the founder of the Pensole Design Academy in Oregon and and is slated to be president of the Pensole Lewis College of Business and Design.

“Thank you to Governor Whitmer and all of our partners for helping the grandchildren of Violet T. Lewis , Pensole and College for Creative Studies establish an HBCU in the state of Michigan,” said Edwards. “Our goal is to celebrate Violet T. Lewis’ life’s work she established in the city of Detroit in 1939. Today moves us forward to another major step in continuing her legacy with the support of our founding partners College for Creative Studies, Target, and The Gilbert Family Foundation.”

The Pensole Lewis College of Business and Design is expected to open in 2022, on the campus of the College for Creative Studies in Detroit.

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President Biden speaks during a campaign event in Atlanta, GA, on Saturday. Matthew Pearson/WABE hide caption

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ATLANTA – With its funky carpet, neon signs and moody lighting, Cascade skating rink definitely has a vibe – and it has been a cornerstone of Atlanta's Black community for decades.

Dean Anthony has been coming here since he was a kid with friends and family for roller skating, slushies and birthday parties.

"I'm not the best skater, so I have more memories falling down on the skating rink," Anthony said, laughing.

Anthony is a Democratic strategist and organizer. He says people who hang out at Cascade and places like it could shape the next election – if campaigns don't take them for granted.

Black voters played a key role in helping Joe Biden win Georgia and other battlegrounds in 2020. But as Georgia voters head to the polls on Tuesday for the state's presidential primary, organizers warn that Democrats cannot ignore the drop in Black voter turnout that happened between the last two midterms.

Along with Democratic strategists in Georgia and Michigan, Anthony helped craft a recent memo that found Black voter turnout dropped by almost a quarter between the 2018 and 2022 midterms.

"If the numbers look like they did nationally, Democrats don't win," says the memo's co-author Jack DeLapp. "We can't have a quarter of black voters in 2020 drop off in 2024."

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Dean Anthony, left, and Nina Smith at Cascade roller skating rink in Atlanta. Anthony and Smith are Democratic strategists encouraging candidates to embrace Black voters where they are - like at this rink, a cornerstone of the community. Sam Gringlas/WABE hide caption

Dean Anthony, left, and Nina Smith at Cascade roller skating rink in Atlanta. Anthony and Smith are Democratic strategists encouraging candidates to embrace Black voters where they are - like at this rink, a cornerstone of the community.

At Cascade, Anthony says campaigns need to meet Black voters early, often and wherever they are, not just at church or a rally at a historically-Black college a few weeks before Election Day.

"I think generally there's a sense of fear that's really palatable, but also apathy to some degree," explained Nina Smith, another co-author of the report. "That's where showing up at places like this could be helpful."

All three strategists worked on Democrat Stacey Abrams' campaign for governor. Abrams campaigned at Cascade in 2022. Though she lost that election, Georgia – and Michigan – had the smallest drop off in Black voter turnout that year among six swing states with significant populations of Black voters.

We asked young Black voters about Biden and the Democrats. Here's what we learned

We asked young Black voters about Biden and the Democrats. Here's what we learned

Smith and Anthony say Georgia and Michigan can offer lessons for 2024. They chalk the strong voter retention, in part, to innovative campaigning and genuine outreach to overlooked communities. But while Black voter turnout improved for older Georgia voters, it fell sharply for voters under 40.

"It's not on the Black community to save America, but it is right for anyone expecting this community's vote to be intentional about caring for it," Anthony said.

Quentin Fulks, Biden's deputy campaign manager who managed Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock's successful re-election bid in 2022, was asked about efforts to turn out voters of color during a press call in January.

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Supporters arrive for a campaign event in Atlanta for President Biden on Saturday.

"Our campaign has been putting in the work to do everything we need to do to communicate with communities of color next fall to make sure they turn out," Fulks said. "Voters of color have the most at stake in this election and we need to make sure every single one of them understands the choice in front of them."

But Smith says for some voters, campaigning can feel "extractive." She thinks campaigns should offer constituent services, connecting potential voters not only with information about the candidate, but also resources in the community that can help address whatever challenges they're facing.

"Part of overcoming that is being like, how can I be a resource to you rather than me asking for you to take time away from work, take time away from your kids to come vote for me," Smith explained.

That resonates for Marcus Allen, who's unlacing his roller skates nearby.

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Marcus Allen, left, and an employee at Cascade Skating Rink in Atlanta pose by the Skate Rental counter. Allen last voted in 2008, when he cast a ballot for Barack Obama. Since then, he feels like politicians don't do enough for him to vote for them. Sam Gringlas/WABE hide caption

Marcus Allen, left, and an employee at Cascade Skating Rink in Atlanta pose by the Skate Rental counter. Allen last voted in 2008, when he cast a ballot for Barack Obama. Since then, he feels like politicians don't do enough for him to vote for them.

"You have heard a lot of candidates say, 'we're going to do this, we're going to do that.' Like downtown, the streets and the potholes, they need to be fixed. Over the years, they say they're going to do it, but it never happens," Allen said.

Allen last voted in 2008 for Barack Obama.

"We need to take up minimum wage," he said. "The jobs that we have, it ain't enough to pay your bills and all of that. it's just enough to get by."

Another skater, who declined to give her name, said she was first eligible to vote in the last election, but when she showed up to her polling place, there was a problem with her registration so she couldn't cast a ballot. She felt discouraged – and she didn't feel like the election mattered much anyway. So she says she's unlikely to try again.

Many in Michigan don't know how — or whether — they'll vote in the general election

Many in Michigan don't know how — or whether — they'll vote in the general election

Hop on I-75 in Atlanta, head north, and eventually the interstate cuts through Detroit, where Branden Snyder has been hearing a similar disconnect between politics and everyday life.

Snyder directs the nonprofit Detroit Action and has been doing voter outreach for years in Detroit, a city that's key to any Democrats' winning coalition. Snyder recently moderated a roundtable for Black men hosted by a group called the League at a trendy co-working space and recording studio.

While the session was off the record, Snyder said the men had a lot on their minds.

"People want to have conversations about economic justice and abortion and criminal justice," Snyder says. "And being able to peel away the pomp and spectacle of elections and to just have conversations between neighbors and Black men was really the work that it took. If we're meeting people up front with just, 'Go vote for Biden,' then we're going to lose."

Unlike in Georgia, in Michigan, 96 percent of Black voters under 30 who voted in 2018, came back to the polls in 2022. But that year, Michigan also had a ballot referendum to protect abortion rights. And since then, many young voters have soured on Biden's stance on the war in Gaza.

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William Trice attended a listening session in Detroit focused on Black men. He voted for Joe Biden in 2020 but isn't sure what he'll do this time around. William Trice hide caption

William Trice attended a listening session in Detroit focused on Black men. He voted for Joe Biden in 2020 but isn't sure what he'll do this time around.

Twenty-six year-old William Trice attended Snyder's listening session. Trice manages a car wash and is working on the side to grow a music career. But in the meantime, he's had to move back in with his mom as rent, gas and grocery prices went up.

"I feel like these past four years, a lot hasn't changed," Trice says. "If anything, for me, it has kind of gotten worse. Not to say that that's all Biden's fault, but I'm not sure how much of a change Biden really has made for me and my family and people like me."

Trice says he voted for Biden in 2020 and will definitely go to the polls in 2024. He's just not sure yet if it will be to vote for Biden or for Trump.

"I have a grandfather that is around the same age," Trice says. "I love my grandpa, but I couldn't imagine him having the weight of the whole country on his shoulders."

Trice says he can tell when campaign outreach isn't genuine or is trying too hard to speak to Black culture. He says he just wants candidates to take meaningful steps to address issues that matter to him.

"We've got a president that's down with us, that's cool, but I want to bring back more jobs, I want less poverty in my city, better education in Detroit Public Schools," Trice says.

Snyder says a one-size-fits-all approach to outreach can fall flat.

"So you're talking to 29 year-old black folks like you would talk to a 69 year-old black person," Snyder says. "Like, 'We need to vote because Martin Luther King marched,' that's just not resonating with a 29 year-old who's gone through two recessions, a pandemic and is social media savvy."

Snyder says to engage these voters, the message has to go beyond just who to vote for. He says organizers have to show people that democracy can work for them, too.

And, he says, campaigns have to prove they are really listening.

Snyder ended his listening session by thanking the participants for their vulnerability. Then, he raised a glass for a toast.

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