Notable HBCU Alumni, Including One from Yakima!

We have many notable HBCU alumni who have gone on to achieve world-class status, at least one of which went to university in Texas!

See if you can pick out which one of these Yakima natives attended one of our prestigious American historically Black colleges in the state of Texas!

Rickey Smiley

Yolanda Adams

Diddy

Roberta Flack

Toni Braxton

Tom Joyner

Reverend Jesse Jackson

Spike Lee

Toni Morrison

Keisha Knight Pulliam

Gladys Knight

Wale

Marlon Wayans

Debbie Allen

JB Smoove

Wendy Raquel Robinson

Wilma Rudolph

Samuel L. Jackson

Lionel Richie

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Answer: Yolanda Adams, best known for singing, "Get Here", went to Texas Southern University. Yolanda Adams hails from Yakima, WA!