african american college students

After Naomi Jefferson's brother is killed in an automobile accident on the way to a civil rights demonstration and the man she loves betrays her, Naomi struggles to find meaning in life through politics and her career.

Four young housemates from a historically black university attempt to save a community center in a low-income Washington D.C. neighborhood while they cope with intense personal struggles of faith, love, and family; and the effort is made even more difficult by a sophisticated local drug dealer who wants the center shut down.

Practical guide to higher education for African Americans, covering such topics as how assumptions black student's make about whites affect their academic careers, how to get grades changed, how to remember what the professor says in lectures, and how to balance study, work, family responsibilities, and fun.

Perry Skky Jr. struggles to stay true to his faith as he deals with the stress of playing college football, his girlfriend's demands, his friend's accident, and his grandmother's failing health.

Perry Skky, Jr., a freshman at Georgia Tech and star college football player, feels pressures from family, friends, school, and his girlfriend, and starts to lose sight of what God expects, possibly endangering his football career and his close relationships, but eventually starts to learn some lessons about staying faithful to God.

James "JD" Dawson arrives at University of Atlanta hoping for a fresh start and a chance to make something of himself, but when he starts partying more than studying, his habits soon endanger his future at the college, until, with the help of a beautiful tutor, JD realizes it is time to grow up.

Explains where to find and how to go about getting scholarships that are targeted toward African-American students, with listings from private and federal sources.

The story of Cedric Jennings, a gifted inner city teenager at Ballou Senior High School, a crime-infested school in Washington, D.C. and his journey from extreme poverty to Brown University, where he thought he would find an end to his struggles. Instead, Cedric finds that he is far behind other freshmen academically and must continue his intellectual and social challenges, counting on his faith in God to pull him through.

As the old rules of Southern society collapse, Meridian fights a lonely battle to reaffirm her own humanity and that of her people.

Follows gifted African-American student Cedric Jennings from his crime-infested high school in Washington D.C. to his junior year at Brown University, discussing the problems he encountered along the road out of the ghetto.