https://lasentinel.net/cal-state-la-chemistry-faculty-member-receives-this-years-outstanding-professor-award.html

She chose Spelman College because an all women's HBCU provided her with the supportive environment that she needed to counter the insecurities of being a high achieving, middle class, African American women who was different from her high school classmates... 

http://www.idvl.org/sciencemakers/Bio37.html