This would have been the 23rd year the city of Chicago hosted the annual Chicago Football Classic at Soldier Field. Though the coronavirus pandemic caused organizers to cancel the game, part of the celebration is going virtual. From Tuesday, Oct. 20, to Saturday, Oct. 24, CFC organizers are holding the first ever Historically Black Colleges and
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(From left to right) Gilda Barabino, Makola M. Abdullah, Mary Schmidt Campbell, and C. Reynold Verret Historically Black Colleges and Universities Take Center Stage as the Nation Responds to COVID-19 and Systemic Racism By Molly Galvin Most U.S. colleges and universities are struggling to adjust to the COVID-19 pandemic, but Historically Black Colleges and Universities —
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The daily number of positive COVID-19 tests increased by 3,200 after colleges resumed classes throughout the country As schools and colleges are reopening nationwide amid the ever present coronavirus pandemic, students at historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) are leading by example when it comes to containing the spread of the virus around their campuses.
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The pageantry of bands at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) — the fifth-quarter band battles, the dancers and the halftime shows — are on hold for now with the cancellation of fall sports. HBCUs were affected on all levels by COVID-19, so now these institutions’ bands are operating in ways they never had to
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Florida A&M University (FAMU) has received $1.5 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to operate its own COVID-19 testing lab and serve as a hub for other historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in Florida. The agreement provides funding through October 2022. President Larry Robinson, Ph.D., joined other HBCU administrators and Gates Foundation
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North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University is being considered as the first of five universities in a consortium to be established by the U.S. Space Force. A&T is the first university the Space Force has visited in its effort to establish the consortium, thanks to Maj. Romeo White ’08, who also participated in discussions
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The presidents of two historically Black universities in New Orleans thought they were doing a public service by enrolling in a Covid-19 vaccine clinical trial back in August, so much so they urged their campus communities to consider doing the same.“I said we should inform our communities because I think there’s something about teaching by
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Black education was a subversive act from its inception. African Americans pursued education through clandestine means, often in defiance of law and custom, even under threat of violence. They developed what Jarvis Givens calls a tradition of “fugitive pedagogy”—a theory and practice of Black education in America. The enslaved learned to read in spite of
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An exploration of how plant behavior and adaptation offer valuable insights for human thriving. We know that plants are important. They maintain the atmosphere by absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen. They nourish other living organisms and supply psychological benefits to humans as well, improving our moods and beautifying the landscape around us. But plants
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A leading civil rights historian places Robert Kennedy for the first time at the center of the movement for racial justice of the 1960s—and shows how many of today’s issues can be traced back to that pivotal time. Bobby Kennedy was an unlikely civil rights hero. A cold warrior who once worked for Joe McCarthy,
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