Ohio State University; Florida State; Gonzaga; all college sports royalty we know and love or despise. But what if we told you the recent groundswell of anti-racist activism that’s swept across America over the past year is helping reshape the world of college sports too? Due to what observers call heightened “racial consciousness,” elite Black athletes are today being drawn to historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). It’s a trend that could reshape the college sports universe. “I describe this often in class as the ‘Trayvon Martin generation,’” says Derrick White, an African American studies professor at the University of Kentucky and the author of Blood, Sweat, and Tears. Today, we serve up the lowdown on the HBCU sports programs to watch, highlight the stars set to shine and dive into how the reckoning on America’s streets is changing college sports.