Perspective: Decades ago, Hassan Abdus-Sabur left Howard University before he could get his degree. He now helps raise money for current HBCU students.
As a freshman at Howard University, Hassan Abdus-Sabur found himself sitting in a crowded auditorium, listening to a speaker instruct students to look to their left and look to their right. Many of the people in those seats, the speaker warned, wouldn’t make it to graduation.As he tells it, he spent two years attending the D.C.-based university before heading home to Newark. He was financially struggling at the time, and college expenses were adding up.
“I don’t get to wear the Howard alumni hat,” he said. “I can wear the Howard shirt, but I can’t wear the Howard alumni hat. … That’s such a bitter pill because I love that place. It gave me so much, just in the time I was there.”We all carry our biggest regrets in different ways. Some of us try to push them to the far recesses of our minds in hopes of forgetting the circumstances that led to them. Some of us keep them close, allowing them to take up space in our thoughts as we go about our days.
Now that we see what stealing a college slot really looks like, can we stop making students of color feel like frauds? Together they raised about $7,000, which was short of Marbella’s goal, but proved enough when combined with the funds she had collected and the money she saved by studying from home after covid precautions caused the university to move classes online.The next year, Hassan biked again — and this year, he did it again. Along the way, he said, he and the other bicyclists met strangers who donated on the spot when they heard about the cause.
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