PSUSD students presenting on HBCU tour to Washington D.C. – KESQ

College students in Palm Springs Unified College District who attended a free program to tour traditionally black school and universities (HBCU) in Washington D.C. earlier this 12 months are presenting about their journey to the college Board Tuesday evening.

This system, an initiative arrange by the African American Mother or father Advisory Council of PSUSD, was granted to 24 college students who have been chosen due to their educational excellence.

“These are locations they don’t get to go to repeatedly. They might see them featured in films and issues of that nature however typically these are like magical legendary locations that don’t exist,” mentioned Jarvis Williams, Household Engagement Neighborhood Liaison. “They’re not accessible to our kids of colour.”

“It provides them the chance you understand to go to locations like the home of Frederick Douglas, the MLK monument, to face on the steps of the Lincoln memorial,” defined Williams. “However to truly have the ability to go there and to truly have the ability to see these issues is definitely an enriching expertise.”