The Economist has a report on how the 105 US historically black colleges and universities are doing and their problems: http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3503700 Some 25% of all black Americans earn their degrees from them - including the step-daugter of a buddy of mine (Tuskeegee - but now at UCLA med school) - and her mother teaches at one. -Orson