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By Melissa Noel· Updated November 8, 2022
For Hassan Abdus-Sabur attending Howard University was a dream come true. But he never imagined that staying would prove to be so difficult or that he wouldn’t go on to graduate.
The Newark, New Jersey native says he spent two years at the well-known Washington D.C.-based HBCU studying elementary education before financial struggles forced him to leave the university and return home.
“That place [Howard
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