Morehouse & Spelman namesakes

[IndomitableAde]

"I don't know everything, I be learnin" Kev On Stage, 2023

Also me, always.

[thasfun]

As LeVar Burton (Reading Rainbow) would say, "The more you know, the more you grow." Take a look, it's in a book....y'all know the rest!!! ❤ Keep reading and growing Kev. I love the PSA at the end to encourage more to read as well!

[Rose]

Wilberforce University was named after William Wilberforce a white British abolitionist. It's the first HBCU owned and operated by African Americans.

[HeartlessWon]

I regret not going to an HBCU honestly… the culture, celebration, and success stories that are associated with HBCUs make me proud.

[vonnieb]

Chile' ain't nobody told me nothin 😊 thank you for the edumacation brotha

[ajwashere-]

Today years old too Kev. Had no idea. Thank you 🙏🏾

[PassionGodAlways]

Thank YOU for teaching us Kev! ❤️🖤💚✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽

[skittledittle]

The internet really be teaching me valuable knowledge, thanks Kev❤

[lonewolf]

Hold up y'all doing college visits??? Zay growing up before our eyes

[IndomitableAde]

I couldn't have told you their full government names before today, but I went to college in Atlanta so I did know both schools were named after white folks. I did not know the woman was a Rockefeller by marriage or that she was an abolitionist. Thank you for teaching me that.

[subsistence]

Yep. Same as jcsu. I went there not knowing it wasn't named after an African American. I'm sure this is the case for a lot of hbcus that didn't have funding and depended on funds from the outside in order to grow. A lot of these people wanted to give African Americans the same privilege of getting an education and have careers.

[MaddietheWindy]

To be completely honest, it never even occurred to me that these HBCUs were even named after anybody, Black or white. Only Bethune-Cookman because I was born and raised in FL.

[deborahpinkey]

So Kev, where do you think Black folk got the money to be founding colleges back in the 1860's and 1870's?
Did you know that white people were instrumental in the founding of the NAACP?
I am 70 years old, but I didn't know the history behind "Juneteenth" until a couple years ago. I also didn't know about Black Wall Street, Tulsa, until a couple years ago! And I studied history in college! THIS is why they don't want us to know anything about our history! Not only did they keep us from knowing about our African heritage; they kept us from knowing our own recent history as well (that includes 1619 until the present). That way, they determine the narrative. They don't want their children to know anything about our achievements, either. They also don't want them to know about any of the struggles we have had to contend with as African Americans. And generation after generation, the cycles of racism are repeated!

[goat]

My dad was friends with John Hope's grandson. The historian John Hope Franklin was named after him.

[traceybaytops]

I'm with you, Kev! I never knew any of that!!! Thanks for sharing!!!

[kikicinza]

I learned when I went to Spelman, but it really didn’t hit me until years later. So, I get it.

[shelleywatkins]

I graduated from Morris Brown, and i did not know that! 😮

[TR-hnqj]

I remember hearing that a long time ago, then wondered for months why those and many others are considered HBCU. WHAT MAKES AN HBCU AND HBCU??

[Turner]

I went to TWO HBCUs (undergrad: Tougaloo College; grad: JSU) and did NOT know that. Wow. #TheMoreYouKnow

[Michael-mtyb]

Morris Brown College was entirely Black owned and founded. The only Black owned institution in the AUC!