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HBCU EXPERIENCE

NEWARK, N.J.

Thank you to everyone that celebrated othe opening of "Heritage Hall: HBCU Experience at the historic Hahne Building in Newark, N.J. An incredible, inspiring cross generational HBCU event.

VISION

Celebrating the legacy and powerful impact of HBCUs.

Heritage Hall welcomes the community to a unique space co-curated by high school mentees and artist/mentor David Byre-Tyre. Featuring beautiful portraits of HBCU graduates who live or work the city of Newark.

*Made possible by a generous financial support from the NJ Devils Youth Foundation and The Newark Alliance.

All photography is by Newark based

Tamara Fleming Photography.

RESULTS

HBCU's produce:

40%

of all Black Engineers

50%

of all Black Lawyers

70%

of all Black Doctors

80%

of all Black Judges

HBCU

Historically Black Colleges and Universities

What is a HBCU?

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are uniquely American institutions. Just as the U.S. would not be the culturally dynamic country it is without jazz music and hip-hop culture, its intellectual and political landscapes would be weaker without the contributions of HBCU colleges.

Although HBCUs have been around since the 1830s, they have received newfound interest in the past few years thanks to HBCU alum Kamala Harris’ election to vice president of the United States and the recent Black Lives Matter movement.

While HBCUs account for less than 3% of America’s colleges and universities, they enroll 9% of America’s Black college students, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).

Take a brief visual tour of our latest mentoring lab initiative Heritage Hall: the HBCU Experience. Featuring the Heritage Hall High School Fellows from Newark New Jersey. This is an engaging HBCU preparatory experience for high school students

Heritage Hall High School Fellows from Summer 2024 share their experiences and thoughts about HBCU Culture and their own journey. This summer there were 17 Heritage Hall High School Fellows. MENTOR Newark partnered with the City of Newark Summer Youth Employment Program to ensure that each of the youth were paid for their work at Heritage Hall. Fellows learned about HBCU culture, watched movies and documentaries about HBCU culture and met with many HBCU alum and current students. Fellows also presented tours and workshops about HBCU culture to grade school students from Newark, college interns from our partner NJ Devils Youth Foundation and other local organizations. In addition, the summer coordinator of this initiative is a MENTOR Newark alum , Science Park High School graduate and a current Howard University sophmore.

Heritage Hall Mentors
(HBCU Graduates)

Heritage Hall is a space where HBCU graduates that live or work in the city of Newark and surrounding areas cab celebrate their common HBCU experience.