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For HBCUs, the bands are about much more than the show to the Black community – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

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.

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For HBCUs, the bands are about much more than the show to the Black community: 'This is family'

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

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For HBCUs, the bands are about much more than the show to the Black community: 'This is family' – WABE

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For HBCUs, the bands are about much more than the show to the Black community: 'This is family' – WLTZ

For HBCUs, the bands are about much more than the show to the Black community: 'This is family' – WLTZ
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For HBCUs, the bands are about much more than the show to the Black community: 'This is family'

HOUSTON — 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 stone s

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For HBCUs, the bands are about much more than the show to the Black community: 'This is family'

For HBCUs, the bands are about much more than the show to the Black community: 'This is family'
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For HBCUs, the bands are much more than the show: 'This is family' – The Virginian-Pilot

“It’s competition. It’s discipline. It’s tradition. It’s all those things. Marching band for HBCUs, it’s almost a cornerstone.”

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For HBCUs, the bands are about much more than the show to the Black community: 'This is family'

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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For HBCUs, the bands are about much more than the show to the Black community: 'This is family' – Winnipeg Free Press

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For HBCUs, the bands are much more than the show: 'This is family' – Daily Press

For HBCUs, the bands are much more than the show: 'This is family' – Daily Press
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