At Howard, I gained a sense of community and the camaraderie I had been longing for How a popular dance introduced this Rhoden Fellow to Black college life
4 years
In 2015, I was a 15-year-old sophomore at Cypress High School in Cypress, California, a school whose population is 35% Asian, 29% white, 23% Latino and only 3.5% Black. Although I was comfortable with my Blackness growing up, the environment at Cypress did not always celebrate that Blackness in ways that benefited me. I was […]
