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Thursday, Sept. 23, will be the 226th birthday of Alexander Lucius Twilight — the first Black person to graduate from an American college or university. This historic event took place in 1823 at Middlebury College, a private liberal arts school in Vermont.

But before I tell you Twilight’s inspiringly amazing story, I must make the following two key points right now: one is that Africa is the birthplace of intellectualism and two, that HBCUs are the springboard to culturally empowering academic and career success.

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