The USA Baseball Collegiate National Team remains undefeated after sweeping the Chinese Taipei International Friendship Series, winning the fifth and final game 7-6 on Tuesday night.
Two Black college standouts are competing on the USA Baseball Co ...
Posted Wednesday, July 5th 2023 at 7:00PM
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The first day of July marked the official entrance of North Carolina A&T football into the Colonial Athletic Association as a full member.
In February 2022, the conference announced that an invitation had been accepted by NC A&T after a two-year s ...
Posted Wednesday, July 5th 2023 at 6:49PM
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Before the Supreme Court ruling striking down race-conscious admissions, we asked student photographers at seven very different schools to show us what community looks like on their campuses — some that have long practiced affirmative action and some ...
Posted Wednesday, July 5th 2023 at 6:39PM
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Monyell Sessoms and Kameren Haliday came to Howard University a little over three years ago and bonded together with a love of skating.
After noticing there was a community of skaters on campus and in the city of Washington, D.C., they decided to ...
Posted Wednesday, July 5th 2023 at 5:50PM
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Summer is officially here! As the summer solstice graces us with its warm breezes and long days, it's the perfect time to grab a captivating book and immerse yourself in the work of some of the most brilliant authors to emerge from Historically Black ...
Posted Wednesday, July 5th 2023 at 5:01PM
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This past academic school year, the eight Ivy League institutions – Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Penn, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, and Cornell – enrolled a total of 68,968 undergraduate students — only 5,063 of them were Black. Howard University, a sing ...
Posted Wednesday, July 5th 2023 at 4:40PM
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Thank you so much for doing this with us! Before we dig in, our readers would like to get to know you a bit more. Can you tell us a bit about your “backstory”? What led you to this particular career path?
What most people find surprising is I’m a ...
Posted Friday, June 30th 2023 at 4:28PM
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As a rising high school senior trying to figure out the next several years of her life, Gabrielle Wilson sees Thursday’s Supreme Court decision on race-conscious admissions as a possible hurdle.
“I think if affirmative action was taken away, it w ...
Posted Friday, June 30th 2023 at 1:50PM
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Beginning Fall 2023, the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) will offer two new degree programs, pending approval by the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board at its July 28 meeting. In May, the University of Arkansas System Board of T ...
Posted Friday, June 30th 2023 at 1:19PM
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“I gained confidence from HBCUs … At Berkeley High, I was in the Advanced Math program all the way from freshman year to junior year, and I always felt extremely ostracized,” said Rayna Carter, a BHS alum and current junior at Howard University. “I n ...
Posted Friday, June 30th 2023 at 11:58AM
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The National Hockey League has partnered with Tennessee State University to form the first men's hockey program for a historically black college in the United States.
The NHL announced that it joined the NHL Players' Association, NHL team the Nash ...
Posted Friday, June 30th 2023 at 11:19AM
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After decades of legal opposition, affirmative action in college admissions is dǝad. The U.S. Supreme Court Justices ruled race-conscious admissions unconstitutional on Thursday in the Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) cases against Harvard Un ...
Posted Friday, June 30th 2023 at 11:19AM
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Calling all HBCU Students and Recent Graduates!
Truist and HBCU Connect are partnering to offer a virtual hiring event on August 16th at 6 p.m. EST. This is your chance to learn more about Truist and the teams, ask questions, and potentially land an interview.
SAVE YOUR SPOT! ...
Posted Thursday, June 29th 2023 at 3:54PM
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In the era of mass shootings and bills being passed allowing guns to be carried without permits, one starts to wonder if we are actually safe on college campuses, more importantly, Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
With Florida House B ...
Posted Thursday, June 29th 2023 at 3:22PM
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Florida A&M University alumna and environmental scientist Natasha D. White, Ph.D., will receive the Professional Achievement in Government award at the Women of Color STEM DTX Conference in Detroit this fall. The award recognizes significant minority ...
Posted Thursday, June 29th 2023 at 1:44PM
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Tuskegee alums are stepping up to support the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center renovation with endowment donations.
Dr. Charlotte Morris met Don Winston '72 (left) and Billy Abrams '68 this week to discuss the support of the alums and an extend ...
Posted Thursday, June 29th 2023 at 1:31PM
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As parents and caregivers striving to instill pride and confidence in our Black children, it is important that we provide them with literature they can identify with. This not only means books with characters that they can relate to and see themselve ...
Posted Thursday, June 29th 2023 at 11:52AM
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Potential new rules for Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) membership have been revealed, and if passed, would provide a significant hurdle for many if not all HBCU programs looking to make the jump up.
If adopted, all FBS schools would be required ...
Posted Thursday, June 29th 2023 at 10:22AM
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HOUSTON – Coach Tomekia Reed may have kept a few receipts of the Jackson State Lady Tigers' critics following the losses to Southern and Memphis at the end of the 2022-23 season. Then again, the first receipt she'll check, may be of her own.
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Posted Wednesday, June 28th 2023 at 3:50PM
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Nationwide — Honoring her esteemed leadership and service, Angel Rich-Jones, a graduate of Hampton University, has become the youngest African American HBCU grad to receive the Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award signed by President Joe Biden. Th ...
Posted Wednesday, June 28th 2023 at 3:46PM
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In what will possibly be the most intense game of the year, the Alabama State Hornets will look to get revenge on Jackson State when they roll into town for the Tigers’ homecoming.
Last year, Jackson State faced Alabama State in the Hornets’ homec ...
Posted Wednesday, June 28th 2023 at 3:00PM
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Tennessee State University announced Wednesday it was adding a club men's hockey team, making it the first historically Black college or university (HBCU) to introduce a college hockey program.
The Nashville-based school said the men's team will s ...
Posted Wednesday, June 28th 2023 at 2:30PM
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They are found as far north as Pennsylvania and as far west as Texas and Oklahoma, but a majority of the more than 100 historically black colleges and universities nationwide are concentrated in the South. We asked to hear about people’s experiences ...
Posted Wednesday, June 28th 2023 at 2:03PM
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Hip hop may have started out in the Bronx and Run DMC's Darryl MacDaniels may have attended St. John's University, but the influence of HBCUs-their students and alumni- on the industry cannot be denied. For more than 25 years HBCUs have showcased up ...
Posted Wednesday, June 28th 2023 at 1:26PM
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We know that funding your college journey can be a major hurdle. The cost of tuition and fees can be daunting, with private colleges averaging $38,070, in-state public institutions at $10,740, and out-of-state public colleges at $27,560 for the 2021- ...
Posted Wednesday, June 28th 2023 at 11:53AM
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