Fisk University

i left gaston alabama in 1970 i was fortunate to have a number of scholarships and my mother wanted me to stay close to home so i accepted university of tennessee that's where i i played basketball for two years and then transferred because i had never been to a black school And we had scrimmage, you know how major white schools scrimmage little small black schools.

We had scrimmage Fisk University in Nashville.

And Coach Ronald Lawson, when he was leaving the floor, whispered in my ear, knows if you ever wanna come to a black school, you have a full scholarship.

And so I ended up transferring to Fisk University and graduated there in 74.

Worked at AT&T for a year and a half.

And then me and my frat brothers, Omega Psi Phi fraternity.

what up, man? Rock TZ in the house for another HBCU.

No. Oh, we finna head to Fisk University.

Established in 1866.

Home of the Golden Blue Bulldogs.

By the age of six, she started classical ballet and modern dance.

By the age of eight, she started taking lessons in tap dancing and acrobatics.

After attending Fisk University, she began studying dance at the Philadelphia Dance Academy, which is now known as the University of Arts.

She went on to teach master classes and launched the Jameson Project.

Hey, what up, man? Rock TZ in the house for another HBCU.

No. Oh, we finna head to Fisk University.

Established in 1866.

Home of the Golden Blue Bulldogs.

By the age of six, she started classical ballet and modern dance.

By the age of eight, she started taking lessons in tap dancing and acrobatics.

After attending Fisk University, she began studying dance at the Philadelphia Dance Academy, which is now known as the University of Arts.

She went on to teach master classes and launched the Jameson Project.

And I told her, Malcolm DeCastro just texted me that I got the list.

So here's the list, right? I know we're struggling, but this is a high note, right? The top 10 private HBCUs, Howard University in Washington, D.C., Spelman College in Georgia, Morehouse College in Georgia, Xavier University of Louisiana, Hampton University in Virginia, Tuskegee University in Alabama, Fisk University in Tennessee, Talladega College in Alabama, Clark Atlanta University in Georgia, and Tougaloo College in Mississippi.

That's the top 10 private HBCUs.

The top 10 public HBCUs.

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20 institutional partners represented at TMAS included Austin Peay State University, Belmont University, East Tennessee State, Fisk University, Lipscomb University, MTSU, Tennessee State, Tennessee Tech, and all of the University of Tennessee systems.

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... they're introduced as the choir, as the b- as a Black choir from Fisk University.

So I did some research on this and, and I'm gonna talk more in the future about this, but Fisk is one of the foundational institutions of Black gospel music, Black American music in general.

It's a really interesting story that, um...

Okay, so this, so there's a famous choir that came out.

The actual Fisk University Choir was a choir that would perform all around the world, did a number of recordings, and was famous.

It's significant that this is just called a Fisk University Choir, not the Fisk University Choir.

And I realize that's a tiny little thing here.