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HOUSTON — Its almost 10 p.m. and still a sweltering, sticky 95 degrees when Texas Southerns Ocean of Soul band marches onto the top of a parking garage a stones

The famous marching bands at historically Black colleges and universities have been putting on their must-watch shows for decades. They are a treasured hallmark of the Black community, which is

HOUSTON (AP) — Its almost 10 p.m. and still a sweltering, sticky 95 degrees when Texas Southerns Ocean of Soul band marches onto the top of a parking garage a

The famous marching bands at historically Black colleges and universities have been putting on their must-watch shows for decades. They are a treasured hallmark of the Black community, which is

HBCU bands are about much more than the halftime show

It’s almost 10 p.m. and still a sweltering, sticky 95 degrees when Texas Southern’s Ocean of Soul band marches onto the top of a parking garage a...

The famous marching bands at historically Black colleges and universities have been putting on their must-watch shows for decades. They are a treasured hallmark of the Black community, which is

HOUSTON — Its almost 10 p.m. and still a sweltering, sticky 95 degrees when Texas Southerns Ocean of Soul band marches onto the top of a parking garage a stones

One of the three drum majors, Dominique Conner, speeds through his bandmates, handing out kudos when earned and criticism when needed. Band director Brian Simmons climbs to the top of a nearby ladder and lifts a bullhorn. Just why more than 100 student musicians are honing their routines on a giant slab of concrete in the brutal August heat of a Houston summer is a microcosm, in many ways, of life at a historically Black college or university like Texas Southern.

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