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HBCUs use World Cup excitement to grow support for their soccer teams

Excitement over the World Cup is giving soccer players at Historically Black Colleges and Universities a chance to highlight their teams and gain support.

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Leoneda Inge is WUNC’s race and southern culture reporter, the first public radio journalist in the South to hold such a position. She explores modern and historical constructs to tell stories of poverty and wealth, health and food culture, education and racial identity. Leoneda is also co-host of the podcast Tested, allowing for even more in-depth storytelling on those topics.

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