1.   And in February it made its first tour of historically black American colleges while students from the company school were performing in Hong Kong for the Chinese New Year.

2.   And in this all-star game, which features football players from predominantly black American colleges, Robinson once again saw an opportunity to make an impact.

3.   And like all the kids in my neighborhood, I mistakenly thought Georgetown was a historically black college, similar to Howard and Central State.

4.   Are you a black student interested in attending a historically black college and think you might qualify for a scholarship?

5.   As president of Fisk, for example, he persuaded black colleges to strengthen their standards by adopting the Scholastic Aptitude Tests as part of their admissions requirements.

6.   At places like Howard University, a historically black college in Washington, students readily accepted the possibility that Brown had been murdered.

7.   At an Atlanta presentation on venture capitalism aimed at colleges and universities last fall, the representation of the predominantly black colleges was small in comparison to others.

8.   At the same time, the black college campuses offered the only genuine community the refugees knew in America.

9.   Because of their high black enrollment, historically black colleges and universities were analyzed separately for the rankings.

10.   Black colleges not only assembled significant art collections but served as the primary training grounds for African-American artists, art historians, professors and museum curators.