Paired: HBCUs (w/ The Stoop)

This Day in Esoteric Political History

Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia

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🗓️ 16 June 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

For the next few episodes, we’re re-posting some of our favorite recent conversations — alongside episodes from fellow Radiotopia shows that cover the same topic or theme.

Today, two stories about HBCUs, including one from our friends at The Stoop.

Thanks to everyone at The Stoop for letting us run this episode!

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0:00.0	Hey everyone Jody here one more episode in our little series where we are pairing some of our favorite episodes with stories from our fellow radiotopia shows who have covered the same topic or theme.
0:11.0	Today, HBCUs. First we will bring you our episode on the founding of the first
0:15.8	historically black college and then an episode from the stoop about HBCUs, the culture
0:20.9	on campus, the important space that's created there and it also
0:24.9	features an interview with Stacy Abrams. This is a really interesting pairing
0:29.2	our episode is first. Here we go.
0:32.0	Hello and welcome to this day in is first. Here we go.
0:39.0	Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia. My name is Jody Avergan.
0:46.5	This day, April 29, 1854, by an act of the Pennsylvania legislature, the Ashman Institute is founded, the first college founded solely for African American
0:52.2	students. This is the day on which it was
0:54.4	officially chartered. Ashman, the college was named after Jehi
0:58.6	Ashman, a Quaker leader and social reformer who was very active in the American
1:03.1	colonization society that early back to Africa movement we've done an
1:06.4	episode on that before if you want to go listen it is no longer called the
1:09.9	Ashton Institute it is now known as Lincoln University, and it is the oldest
1:14.3	HBCU in the country, or is it? Here to discuss is, as always, Nicole Hammer of
1:21.5	Columbia and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley.
1:23.6	Hello. Hey Jody. Hey there. So Kelly I have my little cliffhanger in the
1:28.3	intro there. That's what counts for cliff click hang on this show.
1:34.0	What is the controversy, including with Ashran about what is the oldest HBCU in the country?
1:40.0	So there is a question as to are they the oldest university, the first degree granting
1:48.6	university?
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