Source: Ladanifer / Getty In November 1910, one year after its founding, the NAACP launched its official communications hub, The Crisis magazine, which documented lynching, disenfranchisement, segregation, racial terror, and the everyday humiliations of Jim Crow. Its founding editor, the civil rights activist and child advocate W.E.B. Du Bois, featured a drawing of a Black […]
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Source: Win McNamee / Getty South Carolina State University did something that too many institutions in this political moment have been unwilling to do: it listened to its students. The historically Black university invited South Carolina Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette to deliver its spring commencement address. Reporting now indicates that at least one member of […]
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Saint Augustine’s, one of the oldest HBCUs, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to reorganize debt and continue operating. Source: Abu Hanifah / Getty According to the Triangle Business Journal, WRAL, and a press release from Saint Augustine’s University on Aug. 28, the university, one of the oldest Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the […]
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HBCU football players keep proving they belong at the highest level. But when draft night comes around, the numbers tell a different story. There’s no shortage of talent coming out of historically Black colleges and universities. That’s been true for decades. But according to reporting from HBCU Sports, that talent isn’t translating into consistent opportunities […]
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Atlanta’s Morehouse College has a strong reputation for producing some of the world’s greatest Black thinkers and professionals. But one college junior is looking to put the school on the map for something else: boxing. Suggested Reading Chad Pitts discovered the sport as a nine-year-old boy growing up in Alabama, the state that produced boxers […]
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Cardi B is bringing the drama to the campus of Howard University’s in the form of a new course all about the rollout of her latest album, “Am I the Drama?” But while the Hip Hop course might not seem like a serious educational outlet, there’s a lot more to the course than what meets […]
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JACKSON, MS – MAY 5: Newly Jackson State University graduates celebrate moments before they receive their degrees at the Lee E. Williams Athletic and Assembly Center on, May 4, 2024. (Aron Smith/Jackson State University via Getty Images) Enrollment at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) has risen as more and more Black students are returning […]
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Multi-billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott strikes again! Scott continues to break records for the largest donations to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) around the country. Her latest donation was a generous gift to a small HBCU in North Carolina, and it couldn’t have come at a better time. Suggested Reading Elizabeth City State University’s (ECSU) […]
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A new policy from Howard University’s (HU) athletic department is stirring up trouble on campus. Now, the Lady Bison’s women’s basketball coach is speaking out to defend his players who are catching flak for kneeling during the national anthem. Suggested Reading If you’ve ever been to a HU women’s basketball game, you’d know the team […]
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Source: kjekol / Getty They always announce these decisions in the softest possible language. The words are careful, managerial. They use phrases like streamlining, restructuring, reducing fragmentation, and enhancing collaboration just so they can gut Black-centered scholarship without ever having to admit they’re trying to kill it. But what’s really going down is a quiet […]
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