Dawud Abdel Hakim founded Hakim’s Bookstore in 1959, with the goal of strengthening the African American community, The Grio reports. Initially selling books from the trunk of his car, Hakim eventually opened the first brick-and-mortar store in West ...
Posted Wednesday, October 4th 2023 at 2:13PM
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Mayor Mike Duggan announced on Tuesday that $1.8 million of its American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds “will go towards a $5 million redesign” at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.
Established in 1965, the museum remains a cu ...
Posted Wednesday, October 4th 2023 at 11:46AM
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The injured, including four students, were being treated for non-life-threatening gunshot wounds. The university was celebrating its annual homecoming events.
Five people, including four students, were shot on the Morgan State University campus in ...
Posted Wednesday, October 4th 2023 at 8:24AM
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Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill over the weekend that grants community college students who transfer to historically Black colleges and universities a one-time grant of up to $5,000.
California doesn’t have any HBCUs in the state, so students seek ...
Posted Tuesday, October 3rd 2023 at 6:16PM
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Sinclair Broadcast Group just announced the return of Sinclair’s News Reporter and Producer Academies, a series of interactive, virtual workshops for College Students interested in pursuing careers in journalism. This year, Sinclair will also add Weather Academy, a workshop for students interested in a career in weather. ...
Posted Tuesday, October 3rd 2023 at 2:18PM
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Anyone even the slightest bit of interest in gymnastics (or truly, sports at all) knows that Simone Biles is the GOAT.
And if you forgot, she just reminded everyone again by making history with her latest gymnastics feat over the weekend. She's do ...
Posted Tuesday, October 3rd 2023 at 11:38AM
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The latest games on the HBCU football slate were fun, seeing some exciting results that will have a significant impact going forward.
A team put the HBCU landscape on notice in its conference opener while their rival returned to the football field ...
Posted Monday, October 2nd 2023 at 3:58PM
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FORT VALLEY, Ga. (WGXA) -- Congressman Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. has announced that Fort Valley State University has been awarded nearly $400,000 from the National Science Foundation to encourage and support underrepresented students to STEM-related deg ...
Posted Monday, October 2nd 2023 at 1:40PM
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(BOWIE, Md.) – Bowie State University hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony to unveil the brand new NBA-quality basketball court, funded by a $500,000 gift from Kevin Durant and the Durant Family Foundation.
The gift, announced in December 2022, provid ...
Posted Monday, October 2nd 2023 at 1:14PM
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Morris Brown College has received approval from the Student and Exchange Visitor Program to enroll international students with the F-1 visa for the first time in over 20 years.
“International students can now pursue their education at Morris Brown ...
Posted Monday, October 2nd 2023 at 12:47PM
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Last monday morning, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris held a roundtable discussion with the President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
The event included key figures like Dr. Tony Allen, Chai ...
Posted Monday, October 2nd 2023 at 12:12PM
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The 85th Miss Howard University Armani Washington won the Miss National Black College Alumni Hall of Fame Pageant this weekend. Called “The Competition Of Queens” and hosted during NBCAHOF weekend, the event highlights the achievements of young Afric ...
Posted Monday, October 2nd 2023 at 11:05AM
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Police took several items in July from a home connected to the man arrested in Tupac Shakur's murder
Police took various electronics and other items from a house they searched in July in connection with the investigation into Tupac Shakur’s killin ...
Posted Friday, September 29th 2023 at 4:35PM
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Alabama A&M University and partner Straight to Ale brewing have announced the re-launch of Alma Mater - the popular AAMU-inspired brew this weekend. In time for Homecoming 2023, fans can once again enjoy Alma Mater at Louis Crews Stadium as well as s ...
Posted Friday, September 29th 2023 at 2:38PM
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HBCU Connect and Janssen hosted a recruitment event on September 28th, 2023, that offered professionals with over two years of experience in various fields of the pharmaceutical and scientific industry a unique opportunity to embark on a transformati ...
Posted Friday, September 29th 2023 at 2:08PM
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EAST GREENSBORO, NC — It’s no secret to anyone that North Carolina A&T football is undergoing a rebuild — and that includes head coach Vincent Brown.
NC A&T enters Saturday’s game at Norfolk State off a bye week looking for its first win after an ...
Posted Friday, September 29th 2023 at 12:55PM
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Kenny Monday and Morgan State University are looking to be the leaders of an HBCU wrestling renaissance when the Bears make their return to the mat for the first time since the 1996-1997 season.
Kenny Monday is an amateur wrestling legend and an O ...
Posted Friday, September 29th 2023 at 12:42PM
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A pioneering surgical procedure using 3D-printed middle ear bones, developed by Professor Mashudu Tshifularo and his team at the University of Pretoria (UP) Faculty of Health in South Africa, may be the answer to conductive hearing loss, a middle ear ...
Posted Friday, September 29th 2023 at 12:13PM
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In his Executive Order reestablishing the White House Initiative (Initiative) on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), President Joe Biden charged the Initiative to, “develop new and expand pre-existing national networks of individual ...
Posted Friday, September 29th 2023 at 11:53AM
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ORANGEBURG COUNTY, S.C. — Three of South Carolina's Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) will be involved in a nationwide project that has been awarded $10 million from the US Department of Energy. The Second life sMARt sysTems (SMART ...
Posted Thursday, September 28th 2023 at 5:58PM
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson enjoyed the campus route her mother Ellery Brown ’67 walked during a special tour of Tuskegee University and left those who met her with a genuineness not often found with dignitaries of her caliber.
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Posted Thursday, September 28th 2023 at 12:00PM
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North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (N.C. A&T) Chancellor Dr. Harold L. Martin, Sr., will retire at the end of the 2023-24 school year.Dr. Harold L. Martin Sr.Dr. Harold L. Martin Sr.
Martin – the first alum to lead N.C. A&T ...
Posted Thursday, September 28th 2023 at 11:48AM
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Leilani Armenta, India Pulphus & Haley Van Voorhis are three women making history in college football this season. These three student-athletes are making waves as the first women football players for their respective teams. Jackson State University ...
Posted Thursday, September 28th 2023 at 11:40AM
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Morehouse College football coach Gerard Wilcher vividly remembers his college recruitment visits in Atlanta in the spring of 1987.
When Wilcher arrived at Clark Atlanta University he saw a camera crew filming and eagerly offered to be an extra. At ...
Posted Thursday, September 28th 2023 at 11:13AM
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