In September 1987, NBC debuted the enduring present “A Completely different World,” which aired for six seasons and took us into the lives of scholars on the fictional HBCU, Hillman School. Lower than 5 months later, future Academy Award winner Spike Lee launched College Daze, partially based mostly on his expertise on the HBCU Morehouse School. The next 12 months, Honda created the Honda Campus All-Star Problem. This 12 months, the thirty sixth Honda Campus All-Star Problem will happen on Thursday, April 17.
“When you consider a few of the tales which have come out of Honda Campus All-Star Problem (HCASC), like Nikema Williams, who’s the congresswoman right here in Atlanta who changed John Lewis after his passing,” shared Jasmine Cockfield, Undertaking Chief of Company Social Accountability and the Honda Campus All-Star Problem challenge lead at American Honda Motor Co., Inc. “She’s a graduate of Talladega School, however she was additionally an HCASC pupil when she was at Talladega, so now she’s certainly one of our HCASC Corridor of Famers. So, you see any person like a Nikema Williams story, and also you’re like, wow! She was at Talladega. She did the Honda Campus All-Star problem. She credit a number of her having the ability to communicate publicly and the arrogance that she has to applications like HCASC. That’s sufficient in itself to inform the story of Honda’s dedication to at least one.”
Cockfield, a graduate of Jackson State College and a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., mentioned it offers her a thrill to rise up daily and proceed to do that work.
“Over 36 years, Honda has been dedicated to the HBCU neighborhood. The quantity rings someplace round $14 million in giving in complete in these 36 years, so this 12 months is simply as they might say, one more drop within the bucket and one other strategy to say we’re dedicated,” she mentioned.
Greater than 200 college students and coaches from 32 HBCU groups nicknamed the “Thrilling 32″ will compete for the 2025 Nationwide Championship title and a share of $500,000 in institutional grants from Honda, close to the American Honda company headquarters in Torrance, California on April 17.
The “Thrilling 32” competing for the championship are Alabama A&M College and Alabama State College. Albany State College, Benedict School, Bowie State College, Central State College, Clark Atlanta College, Dillard College, College of the District of Columbia, Edward Waters College, Fisk College, Hampton College, Howard College, Kentucky State College, Langston College, Lincoln College-Pennsylvania, Livingstone School, College of Maryland Japanese Shore, Morehouse School, Norfolk State College, North Carolina A&T State College, North Carolina Central College, Paul Quinn School, Prairie View A&M College, Rust School, Shaw College, Southern College – Baton Rouge, Spelman School, Tennessee State College, Tuskegee College, Virginia State College, and Winston-Salem State College. The championship might be watched on the HCASC YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/hcascnct.