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Nina Robinson

Contestants pray together during Clark Atlanta University's Miss Collegiate 100 scholarship pageant.

2017, GEORGIA | Nanmanian Camara, an aspiring dentist, celebrates with her aunt, Mamata Soumah (left), and mother, Tenin Kaba, at Spelman College, America’s top-rated historically black college.

Pageantry and performance are an important part of life at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Here, last year's winner of Clark Atlanta University's Miss Collegiate 100, says a prayer with this year's contestants backstage before the curtains go up.

Spring 2017 Spelman graduate Nanmanian Camara, an aspiring dentist, celebrates with her aunt, Mamata Soumah (left), and mother, Tenin Kaba. Camara’s Guinean family is proud of the first-generation American and college grad.

Spelman students Mecca McFadden, Kalin Tate, and Safiyyah Logan took hours to make outfits for the Morehouse chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity’s annual end-of-the-year toga party.