Ayesha Rascoe on 'HBCU Made' — and some good old college memories

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🗓️ 30 January 2024

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We're taking it way back — all the way to college. This episode is a mini-reunion: host Brittany Luse and Ayesha Rascoe, host of NPR's Weekend Edition, are both alumnae of Howard University — they even attended during some of the same years. Howard is an HBCU: a historically Black college or university. There are around a hundred in the US, and they've had a big impact on both graduates and American culture writ large. Ayesha has edited a book of essays all about that impact, called HBCU Made: A Celebration of the Black College Experience. Brittany chats with her about the book and what makes HBCUs special — they also trade tales from their own time as students.

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0:17.0	Hello, hello. I'm Brittany Loose and you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR, a show about
0:26.0	what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident. Now today we're going to take it way back all the way back to my college days.
0:43.0	What is the song you most associate with your college years?
0:49.0	It was damn by Youngbloods.
0:53.8	That was my song.
0:55.7	And then when the beat changed, and they say,
0:58.7	enough for show with it.
1:00.1	Don't make me pop that trip to the left
1:01.4	because I was so get it.
1:02.8	And I'm not selfish.
1:03.7	I would let you and your fucking deal it.
1:05.6	I loved it.
1:09.9	I was in the club going crazy.
1:13.6	That's Aisha Roscoe.
1:15.6	You might know her as one of the hosts of NPR's weekend edition,
1:19.1	but she's also the editor of a new book of essays called
1:22.4	HBCU Made, a celebration of the Black College
1:26.0	experience. Aisha, like me, is a graduate of Howard University, a historically
1:31.2	black college or university, also known as an HBCU.
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