"Black students on our campus are actually showing their faces," says Zyearre Amoah, who works to recruit students in the Black Honors College at Sacramento State. Andri Tambunan for NPR hide caption

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When Zyearre Amoah was a student at Sacramento State in 2023, there were times when he felt like the only Black student.

"There were African-American students on our campus," he recalls. But at a sprawling state university with more than 30,000 students, "it just felt like we had to look for each other."

Amoah graduated in 2024, just as his university was launching its Black Honors College, a school within a school with a special focus on Black history, life and culture.…