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Rushion McDonald

Mission Statement: HBCU Awards recognizes the positive impact of HBCUs, Institutions, and Influencers on the African American culture in Business, Entertainment, and Education and the community importance of barbershops, beauty salons, and churches

Description: HBCU Awards promotes and highlights the contributions of African Americans by recognizing the positive impact of HBCUs, Institutions; churches, barbershops, and beauty salons, and Influencers on the African American culture in Business, Entertainment, and Education.

Historically Black Colleges and Universities are institutions of higher education founded in the years after the Civil War. There are over 100 HBCUs across the country, and they enroll 20% of African American students. Despite constituting only 3 percent of four-year colleges in the country, HBCUs have produced 80 percent of the black judges, 50 percent of the black lawyers, 50 percent of the black doctors, 40 percent of the black engineers, 40 percent of the black members of Congress, and 13 percent of the black CEOs in America today. HBCUs have been a long-standing successful source of academic accomplishment and great pride for the African American communities throughout the entire nation. They offer doctoral programs, master's programs, bachelor's degree programs and, associate degrees. HBCU doors opened during the period of segregation in the United States before the Civil Rights Act because predominantly white education institutions completely disqualified or limited African American enrollment. They have played a critical role in ensuring that African Americans students and students of all races receive a quality education. HBCUs are concentrated in the Southern part of the United States to serve the African American community primarily. Because a century after the end of slavery in the United States in 1865, most colleges and universities in the Southern United States blocked all African Americans admissions, while institutions in other parts of the country employed quotas to limit acceptance of African Americans.

Church – Black churches in America have long been recognized as the most independent, stable, and dominant institutions in black communities. In 1867, two years after the Civil War ended, Augusta Institute was established in the basement of Springfield Baptist Church, the oldest independent African American church in the United States, in Augusta, Georgia. Its purpose was to prepare black men for the ministry and teaching. Augusta Institute is now known as Morehouse College.

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