The Breakfast Club - IDKMYDE: 1st and Last HBCUs

Episode Date: February 27, 2025

Today’s episode of IDKMYDE takes you on a journey from Cheyney University, the first HBCU born in 1837 to help Black folks get an education, to American Baptist College, the newest HBCU, stepping up in the ’90s to continue the legacy. It’s a whirlwind tour of how Black education evolved from fighting for access to making sure every future leader gets a seat at the table.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What it do little mamas and Gentiles alike. It is the devil worshiper himself, Langston Kerman. And son of the Lord, David Borden. And we're here to tell you that we have our boy Lamorne Morris on the podcast this week from the new girl bar go Saturday night and the mess around podcast. You're going to want to hear it. We are the number one podcast for all things black conspiracy theories and more. You will not want to miss out on hilarious moments like these.

I'm the same guy who believes in lizard people. So I don't really. Oh, wow. We should have started with that. I look at all this like this. I go, and these. When people say the world is flat, I go, I'm not going to knock you for it. I don't know.

Hey, believe what you want to believe, man. You know what I'm saying? There's people out there that believe Michael Jordan's better than LeBron James. People are crazy. Oh, wow. Okay. You want to believe man, you know what I'm saying? There's people out there that believe Michael Jordan's better than LeBron James. People are crazy. Oh wow. Okay. Catch Lamour Morris on My Mama Told Me with Langston Kerman and David Borey on the iHeart

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It actually rotated around our house, looking as if it was peering in each window of our home. I'm Gabe Liners from Imagine, iHeart Podcasts and Liners Entertainment. Listen to Obscura, Invasion of the Drones, wherever you get your favorite podcasts. On today's episode of I Didn't Know, maybe you didn't either, I have a question. you get your favorite podcasts. If you said Cheney University in 1837, of course you're correct. It was the Institute for Colored Youth, the absolute first institution in the United States

to provide higher education specifically for African Americans. For perspective, the University of North Carolina at Chowtow Hill was founded in 1789, almost 50 years. And although they didn't start enrolling students until 1795, 42 years is a mighty large head start. See, Chaney was founded by a Quaker, a white man, Richard Humphreys, because he had the bread to do so, which is why Wilberforce is very significant.

Now, although it was founded 19 years after Chaney in 1856, here's something that I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either. Wilberforce University is in Wilberforce, Ohio, a town of about 2,400 folks. The area code there is 45384. And it was named after a white Englishman named William Wilberforce, who was a notable leader of the movement to abolish slavery over there in Britain.

However, even though Wilberforce was named after a white man, what makes Wilberforce special is it was the first HBCU owned and operated by black folks, the African Methodist Episcopal Church, AME to be exact. So Chained was founded earlier and began as a vocational and teacher training institute, whereas Wilberforce was the first HBCU controlled by black folks with an emphasis on literal arts education. Both were very pivotal to the history of HBCUs. Now, when you ask what's the last HBCU built, if you said American Baptist College, you'd

be correct. Here's something else that I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either. It was founded in 1924 as American Baptist Theological Seminary, and it wasn't recognized as an HBCU by the U.S. Department of Education until 2013. ABC is known as Holy Hill and was founded by an unprecedented collaboration between the All Black National Baptist Convention USA and the All White Southern Baptist Convention.

The goal was to educate rural black clergy for leadership in their communities. See, ABC was palpitant in the 60s. During the Civil Rights Movement, stop. See, little black boys in the 60s during the civil rights movement. Stop. See, little black boys wasn't growing up trying to go to Yale or Stanford. Oh no, little black boys wanted to go to ABC and learn how to preach. Yes, they wanted to be like Dr. King Shabarro. And ABC got some very notable along too. Renora Lafayette, who was dang near the founder of the civil rights movement, congressman John Lewis, activist C.T. Vivian, and civil rights leader James Bevel. But when I asked you what was the last HBCU built, you might have said UVI, and that would have been correct too,

because it was founded in 1962. The University of the Virgin Islands. And see it serves a dual role of a land grant university and an HBCU over in the Virgin Islands. Now, whereas all LGUs, land grant universities, and HBCUs are both types of land grant universities, HBCUs are extremely underfunded compared to PWI LGUs, but that's a whole nother conversation for a whole nother episode. This was just a little something that I didn't know, maybe you didn't either, about Chaney, Wilberforce, ABC, and UVI. Listen up man, if you love this series, you can now listen to us every single week starting

in March. For all types of things that I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either. Make sure you follow in the show on the I Heart app so that you can hear more. Okay, bye. What it do little mamas and Gentiles alike? It is the devil worshiper himself, Langston Kerman. And son of the Lord, David Borden.

And we're here to tell you that we have our boy, Lamorne Morris on the podcast this week. From the New Girl, Fargo, Saturday Night, and the Mess Around podcast. You're gonna want to hear it. We are the number one podcast for all things black conspiracy theories and more. You will not want to miss out on hilarious moments like these. I'm the same guy who believes in lizard people. So I don't really.

Oh, wow. We should have started with that. I look at all this like this. I go, and these. When people say the world is flat, I go, I'm not gonna guy who believes in lizard people. So I don't really care. Oh, wow. We should have started with that. I look at all this like this. I go, and these? When people say the world is flat, I go, I'm not going to knock you for it. I don't know. Hey, believe what you want to believe, man. You know what I'm saying?

There's people out there that believe Michael Jordan's better than LeBron James. People are crazy. Oh, wow. Okay. Catch Lamar and Morris on My Mama Told Me with Langston Kerman and David Borey on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, it's Amartines. The news can feel like a lot on any given day, but you can't just ignore las noticias when important world changing events are happening. That is where the Up

First podcast comes in. Every single morning in under 15 minutes, we take the news and boil it down to three essential stories you can keep up without feeling stressed out. Listen up first from NPR on the iHeart radio app or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey y'all, I'm Maria Fernanda Diaz. When You're Invisible is my love letter to the working-class people and immigrants who shaped me. Season two shares stories about community and being underestimated. All the greatest changes have happened when a couple of people said,

this sucks, let's do something about it. We get paid to serve you, we're made out of the same things. It's rare to have black male teachers. Sometimes I am the testament. Listen to When You're Invisible on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What would you do if mysterious drones appeared over your hometown? I started

asking questions. What do you remember happening on that night of December 16th? It actually rotated around our house looking as if it was peering in each window of our home. I'm Gabe Linners from Imagine, I Heart Podcasts and Liners Entertainment. Listen to Obscurum, Invasion of the Drones, wherever you get your favorite podcasts.