HBCU Alumni San Diego

Happening THIS Saturday!

Join us as we celebrate Black Excellence, the HBCU classes 23-25 & the incoming class, 2026

Visit HBCUASDCookout22.eventbrite.com for tickets!

Last night we celebrated commUNITY with Restore, Uplift & Hope Foundation & men of at the regular season finale of of

3 young ladies of excellence were recipients of the inaugural San Diego HBCU Scholarship. We celebrate them in their achievements & future endeavors, as they begin matriculation this fall at:
• Tuskegee University, Zoë McNeil
• Xavier University of Louisiana, Aliyah Richardson
• Clark Atlanta University, Ashea Brand

We also thank Hampton alumnus & award winning author for gifting his novel Vinnie: a love letter

Our friends The San Diego Guardians are honoring HBCUs tomorrow at their game! Tip-Off is at 12:30pm & Heartbeat Music & Performing Arts Academy are performing during halftime!

Get your tickets TODAY by visiting https://vivenu.com/event/guardians-vs-seakings-m9yf

You’re looking at HIStory

Reverend Raphael Warnock, is the State of Georgia’s first Black US Senator. He joins the ranks of only 10 others in the Senate’s history.

He is a Morehouse Man (1991), following in the steps of another, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Further, since 2005, Warnock has served as the 5th senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Dr. King also served alongside his father, proceeding their grandfather/father respectively, all Morehouse Men.

Black & HBCU excellence prevails again.

HBCUASD sends our heartfelt condolences to the family & friends of Alumnus Marion McCord. A Morehouse Man of 1971, McCord served as a scientist, minority recruiter & project manager with Naval Ocean Systems Center, locally for nearly 4 decades.

He alongside friend, fellow Morehouse Man & fraternity brother, Dr. Norris Charles owned and operated The Alpha Center on Imperial Avenue. Alumnus McCord was also very active throughout his community.

We thank you for your contributions. The McCord family, our brothers of Morehouse College (Greater San Diego Chapter), Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc (Zeta Sigma Lambda Chapter) and friends, we lift you in prayer during this time.

Photos: 2nd Annual HBCU Expo San Diego (2016) & 3rd Annual Celebration of Fathers, Mr. McCord was honored (2018).

For more on Alumnus McCord’s life see https://www.andersonragsdalemortuary.com/obituary/Marion-McCord?fbclid=IwAR0VrzTg3H5iujz01W6ClhCiINiN2ZeUd7ZnR1pjKlSAXosBoG66LS_nugY

SAVE THE DATE
A Mind Is Gala 2021

We are excited to be a part of this monumental evening. Stay tuned for more details.

To all our future students & alumni, let this inspire you! Just so we’re clear, here is the greatness that comes from HBCUs that made this Presidency possible.

Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, South Carolina State University (1962), thank you for endorsing President-Elect Joe Biden. Thank you also for your advice, that he took, to have a Black woman for a running mate (6 were on his list), that led to Vice-President Elect Kamala Harris, Howard University (1986).

And of course many thanks to the woman with the plan, Stacey Abrams, Spelman College (1995), who did not let 2018 derail her plan. She could have continued vying for VP or answered calls to run for the Late Congressman John Lewis’ district. But she went forward and fought a different fight, continuing Lewis’ legacy (alumnus of American Baptist College & Fisk University) against voter suppression & registering over 800k voters, which resulted in Georgia going blue!

Historically Black College & University alumni started this (Clyburn), were responsible for the shift & indisputable projection (Abrams) and will continue this going forward (Harris) ... in the name of a remarkable Legacy (Lewis)

So the next time you hear are HBCUs still needed, they don’t prepare you ... or anything else questioning their validity, remember these individuals.

University

We have been celebrating since 8:23a PST

Join us as we salute and celebrate the FIRST of many: Black, South Asian, Woman, HBCU graduate (Howard University 1986) and BGLO (Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.) Senator on being the Vice-President Elect of the United States of America.

This has been a long road to 74,857,880 (also HISTORIC) and the work is just beginning. But we know you are tenacious and bred.

Be inspired today!

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"It is with profound sadness that we mourn the loss of alumnus Chadwick Boseman who passed away this evening. His incredible talent will forever be immortalized through his characters and through his own personal journey from student to superhero! Rest in Power, Chadwick!" - President Wayne A. I. Frederick

They use to get in together & it was time for them to rest on the same day.

Today we loss men, who dedicated their lives to what we are STILL fighting for today. Reverend C T Vivian & Congressman John Lewis, we thank you for your sacrifices.

Prayers of comfort to both of your families during this time.

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@ Southeast San Diego

We lost a legend this evening.

Congressman John Lewis was one of the last living members of the Civil Rights Era of the 1960s. Since 1987, he has represented the 5th District in the State of Georgia. He was a proud Alumnus of Fisk University and a member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.

Our prayers, thoughts and deepest condolences are with the Lewis Family.

Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights icon who began pushing for racial justice in the Jim Crow south, has died The Georgia lawmaker and son of sharecroppers had been suffering from Stage IV pancreatic cancer since December. He was 80.