Randall Barnes is a twenty-one year old author, journalist and content creator that is a junior Media Studies major at Fort Valley State University in Fort Valley, Georgia. Randall serves as a 2017-2018 White House HBCU All-Star Ambassador for the White House Initiative on HBCU's, representing his HBCU. He is already the author of the award-winning Young Adult fiction book series "The Diary of Aaliyah Anderson", published by DC Bookdiva Publications. His eShort "Riverview High: Circumstances" hit number #2 on the Amazon charts the week of its debut, sitting right under bestselling author Zane’s "I’ll Be Home For Christmas" the weekend of the debut of her movie "Addicted".
Randall is the owner of HBCU Pulse, an HBCU and millennial centric blog that's ran in conjunction with Urban Intellectuals. Follow Randall on social media: @authorrandallb and @hbcupulse/@thehbcupulse on Twitter.