Meet The Parker High School Grad Whose Sports Firm Is Becoming An HBCU Powerhouse

By Solomon Crenshaw Jr.
The Birmingham Times

Birmingham native Erwin Prentiss Hill is all about historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) — and not just because he is the product of two.

The A.H. Parker High School alumnus is CEO of the Chicago-based Black College Sports Group 360 (BCSG), a nonprofit that uses black college sporting events to promote educational opportunities to urban youth.

The firm, founded in January 2016, promoted this year’s Magic City Diamond Classic between Alabama State University and Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University at Regions Field on April 7. (ASU’s Hornets beat A&M’s Bulldogs, 9-2.)“The bottom line is to get more urban youth back to our HBCUs,” said Hill, who earned an undergraduate degree from Tennessee State University and a master’s degree from Clark Atlanta University. “With the rising cost of education, the trend across the board has been a decline in enrollment at [both] predominantly white institutions [and] predominantly black institutions.”

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