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Actress Ashley Blaine Featherson-Jenkins and HBCU Buzz Founder Luke Anthony Lawal, Jr. at Toast to Black Excellence during HBCU Homecoming with DIAGEO and its Brands CÎROC, Crown Royal, Tequila Don Julio and Tanqueray. (Photo credit: LaVan Anderson/Everyday LaVan)

HBCU Buzz founder Luke Lawal Jr. has big plans for the future

What motivated you to launch HBCU Buzz?

Mainstream media only depicted HBCUs as negative and whenever something happened negative on our campus, or somebody died, or the university fired someone for embezzling, that’s the only time you’ve seen us in mainstream media. That’s where we saw the void.