I"m gonna tell you all something.
Having worked at HBCUs and attending one for 2 years.
They are not for black Americans.
These institutions have been co-opted by african and carribean immigrants and various asians.
You can graduate from an HBCU they won't even given you an instruction job except as an adjunct, but they'll bull any indian, asian, or african as a professor with full tenor. These guys get in and they only bring in and suggest their own fellow immigrants for positions. Especially in the STEM programs.
Go to any HBCU and look at the instructors in the STEM majors, this isn't because black Americans don't apply, either.
I went to ASU, we had NONE, NOT A SINGLE immigrant in our honors program and the majority were in the sciences all graduated. All had to go to PWIs like UAH, UAB, UA, or Auburn to get positions teaching, the HBCUs rejected them. Now get this a white guy with just a masters was offered a full teaching position at ASU, while black ASU graduates with PHDs from PWIs didn't even get call backs.