They got ready for parties and shared countless laughs as freshmen inside the cramped rooms of Elkton Hall, a high-rise dormitory at the University of Maryland at College Park. They bonded over being Black women at a university where, in 1971, Black students made up only 4 percent of the student body.
How to stay friends for 50 years? Ask the women of Sugar Hill.
Since the early 1970s, a group of 16 women have met up every December to celebrate their friendship
By Kelyn Soong
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