{"id":3298,"date":"2019-05-10T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=3298"},"modified":"2019-05-03T09:03:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T13:03:44","slug":"the-carters-shine-a-spotlight-on-hbcus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/05\/10\/the-carters-shine-a-spotlight-on-hbcus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Carters Shine a Spotlight on HBCUs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3299\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3299\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3299\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/homecoming-beyonce-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/homecoming-beyonce-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/homecoming-beyonce-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/homecoming-beyonce-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/homecoming-beyonce.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3299\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Netflix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Beyonc\u00e9 and Jay-Z have become two of the world\u2019s best ambassadors for historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs).<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Beyonc\u00e9 became the first black woman to headline Coachella and she used the opportunity to take concertgoers \u2013 and those watching at home \u2013 to school, celebrating HBCUs on the main stage.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This incredible show was given new life in 2019 with the release of <em>Homecoming<\/em>, her more-than-two-hour documentary about her performance and the months leading up with it. Premiering on Netflix, she reached the platform\u2019s 149 million subscribers, teaching many for the first time about HBCUs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo many people who are culturally aware and intellectually sound are graduates from historically black colleges and universities, including my father,\u201d she said in the film. \u201cThere is something incredibly important about the HBCU experience that must be celebrated and protected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Away from the stage, Jay Z\u2019s non-profit, The Shawn Carter Foundation, offers high school students the chance to experience HBCUs around the country so they can get a better picture of their educational options.<\/p>\n<p>The annual tour launched in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The 2019 Shawn Carter Foundation Bus Tour, which was sponsored by Toyota, took place in late April. The 7-day tour gave a select group of high-performing students a chance to visit 11 HBCUs. Students were also able to meet with college admission counselors and to meet with student ambassadors.<\/p>\n<p>Isaiah, a 2018 participant, thought there were only two or three HBCUs before taking the tour. The tour opened his eyes to so many options, he said in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShawnCarterSF\/status\/1092545119608360966\">a video posted to Twitter.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Ashley Dobson is NACAC\u2019s senior communications manager for content and social media. You can reach her at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:adobson@nacacnet.org\">adobson@nacacnet.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyonc\u00e9 and Jay-Z have become two of the world\u2019s best ambassadors for historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). In 2018, Beyonc\u00e9 became the first black woman to headline Coachella and she used the opportunity to take concertgoers \u2013 and those watching at home \u2013 to school, celebrating HBCUs on the main stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,10,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access","category-college-admission","category-value-of-college"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Ashley Dobson","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/ashley-dobson\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-Rc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}