Clip: Season 8 Episode 4 | 41s | Video has closed captioning.
Rick Gallot and Rani Whitfield examine American history and Black educators through their respective HBCUs, Grambing State University and Southern University. The Louisiana-based educational institutions share many things including alumni who are family and friends as Eric Dooley and Issac Greggs know all too well.
Aired: 02/19/24
- I think if you look back over time, you know, early in the 1900s, you know, if you were a Black professional, chances are you were a teacher, right?
And so you basically had two choices if you were here in Louisiana, either you went to Southern or you went to Grambling.
- There's no Southern or Grambling, I think they should feel the same way.
HBCUs exist because, at one point, African Americans could not attend the PWI.
So we had to find places to go and teach our students.
- You could have a husband that went to Grambling.
You could have a wife that went to Southern.
Or you gonna have someone within that family that went to a different university.
- I have more relatives living and working at Grambling than I have here.
