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To Be Black And Beautiful And Queer at an HBCU… And After Graduation
“Nobody will love you the way an HBCU will love you,” my grandmother insisted as I was drowning in college applications during my senior year at the Alabama School of Fine Arts. Before that, I had only been thinking of applying to conservatories—acting programs deemed the best by reviewers and the like. To quell my…
Bailey is a Harvard University Nieman Fellow and author of the book, “My Brother Moochie: Reclaiming Dignity in the Face of Crime, Poverty and Racism in the American South.” He’s a husband and father.