Like other students leaving and adjusting to college life, moving from Sacramento to Alabama has been a major change for 18-year-old Jayde Warfield-Robin.

She wakes up every day preparing for classes like English 0101 and Psychology 0270.

When she leaves her dorm room, she is surrounded by people who look like her — with ranges of dark skin, Afros, braids, community and a sense of Black pride on campus at Tuskegee University. She also has her gold and maroon pom-poms in her bag as she’s active on the cheerleading team as a freshman.

Warfield-Robin is one of thousands of Black students from the West Coast who attend Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

“There are so many smart people that are the same color as me. I really enjoyed that,” she said. “Plus, the campus is so histor

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