Between the World and Me
Significance of Howard University
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This is the post-secondary educational institution attended by the author after he graduates from high school. Primarily a school for black students, it becomes the setting for what is arguably the author's intellectual and socio-cultural coming of age, as he is exposed to, begins to explore, and begins to celebrate different ways of being black, and of thinking about being black.