VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY — VSU's Trojan Explosion Marching Band made history yesterday when they provided a musical backdrop as guests arrived for the annual White House Black History Month ...

Black and white students participated in roughly equal numbers. The band made a final switch away from HBCU-style marching to corps-style marching in 2007. The change was marked by many as a ...

Each H.B.C.U. marching band ... Some Black leaders implored university administrators to reject the invitation. Image Grambling College and the University of Arizona, a mostly white school ...