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THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY TAEKWONDO CLUB, PART 1

One of Howard University’s best-known graduates is Lynnette Love. A prominent member of the institution’s taekwondo club, she won a gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics and a bronze at the 1992 Barcelona Games.

Gloria DuBisette is one of many women and men who worked to develop the history-making taekwondo club at Howard University.

the martial arts for decades, I had no idea about the astonishing history of at Washington, D.C.’s Howard University, one of the top Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the United States. I hadn’t heard about its champions and pioneers, and most martial artists outside the

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