“Let the show begin.” “Homecoming at a historically Black college and university is everything.” “Homecoming itself — it’s like being baptized in Blackness.” “It’s almost a ritual. And I don’t know if you saw me out of the corner of your eye —” “They call me the Old Man, the Grandpa. And on Homecoming Day, we marched in front of the infamous Marching 101 Band with our legs out. When we started out in 1983, we didn’t really know what we were doing. ?” “Ludacris said, ‘I’ll never miss a homecoming at Howard … so.” “You know, it’s so hard for me because, you know, people know that my daughter went to Howard.” “I get excited.

Source: New York Times October 07, 2020 14:26 UTC