Join us for a conversation on Tuesday, February 13 at the Varsity Theatre in Chapel Hill as Due South co-host Leoneda Inge welcomes NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday host Ayesha Rascoe to discuss her new book "HBCU MADE: A Celebration of the Black College Experience."

At a time when student debt is skyrocketing and the Supreme Court has decided to strike down affirmative action, the importance and investment in Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUS) is greater than ever for the Black community and the country. Edited and with a foreword by Ayesha Rascoe, this joyous and moving collection includes a distinguished and diverse set of contributors including Oprah Winfrey, Stacey Abrams, Branford Marsalis, Roy Wood Jr, along with other prominent and up-and-coming alumni. "HBCU MADE" beautifully pulls back the curtain on the lived experience of prominent graduates while also shining a bright light on the significant contribution that HBCUs have made to American culture.

Ayesha Rascoe is the host of NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday and the weekend episodes of Up First. Prior to her role as host, Rascoe was a White House Correspondent. She covered three presidential administrations. As a part of the White House team, she was also a regular on the NPR Politics Podcast. Before joining NPR, Rascoe spent the first decade of her career at Reuters, rising from a news assistant to an energy reporter to eventually covering the White House. While at Reuters, Rascoe covered some of the biggest energy and environmental stories of the past decade, including the 2010 BP oil spill. She’s a proud graduate of Howard University.