likely landing around just four percent. In 2021

      HBCUs are all too familiar with students who break barriers and rewrite history. This year, Marie Fowler became the oldest student to graduate from Howard University after receiving her doctorate in Divinity at 83 years of age. Last year, around the same time, Florida A&M graduate Tamia Potter became the first Black woman to gain entry into Vanderbilt University’s College of Medicine and Department of Neurological Surgery. No Black woman had ever been accepted as a neurosurgery resident in the college’s 148-year history. […]