By Maegan Vazquez, President Joe Biden honored the NBA champion Milwaukee Bucks at a White House ceremony on Monday, marking the first visit to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue by an NBA championship-winning team since 2016. Harkening back to the first NBA team visit to the White House, made by the Boston Celtics during the Kennedy administration, the
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Written by the Howard University Newsroom, Howard University’s 12th Annual International Conference on Stigma will be held November 15-19, 2021, as a virtual event. The theme is “Trauma…Recovery…Healing.” This year’s conference will include open discussions on a range of topics, including HIV among underserved populations and the impact of chronic stress and trauma. Stigma of mental health,
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By Lucas Johnson Waste Management, a leading provider of environmental services in Middle Tennessee, recently made a three-year, $300,000 commitment to Tennessee State University. The pledge, first unveiled by Dr. Glenda Glover, President of TSU, and Don Gentilcore, Area Director of Disposal Operations for WM, during halftime of TSU’s homecoming football game on Oct. 30 will focus on
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By Fort Valley State University Mohammed Ibrahim, Ph.D., chair and professor, Department of Agricultural Sciences at Fort Valley State University (FVSU) has been selected to the University System of Georgia (USG) 2021-2022 Executive Leadership Institute (ELI) class. Dr. Ibrahim is among 34 faculty and staff members from 25 USG institutions and the University System Office
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By Katia Hetter, As children ages 5 to 11 years old began receiving the Covid-19 vaccine last week, families across the country have been breathing a great sigh of relief. Their younger kids will soon be much better protected against the coronavirus. But will it be in time for Thanksgiving? Will we be able to get together
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Analysis by Chris Cillizza, On Tuesday, a proposal to fundamentally restructure the Minneapolis police department in the wake of George Floyd’s death in 2020 was soundly defeated, a setback that even many Democrats acknowledged could be laid at the feet of the “defund the police” movement that some within the party embraced last summer. “I think allowing this
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By Ivana Kottasová, There’s a small desk right at the back of the largest room at the COP26 conference in Glasgow. It sits well behind the rows of seats reserved for world leaders and international organizations, right underneath a huge EXIT sign, behind observing journalists. The label on the desk reads “Indigenous Peoples Organizations.” The United
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By Veronica Stracqualursi, Gen. Colin Powell was remembered Friday as a patriotic statesman who served his country in peace and war at a funeral service that was marked not only by its reverence for the former secretary of state but by a bipartisan attendance of former presidents and dignitaries who paid tribute to the late giant of
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by Andrew Skerritt Florida A&M University alumna Daria J. Willis, Ph.D., will leave Everett Community College (EvCC), Washington, at the end of the year to become the next president of Howard Community College (HCC) in Columbia, Maryland, both schools announced. Willis, who started at EvCC in July 2019, announced her resignation Thursday, Nov. 4 to
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Written by Grambling State University, Grambling State University will honor military veterans during its third annual Veterans Appreciation Day Program at 2:30 p.m. Nov. 11 at the Fredrick C. Hobdy Assembly Center. The event, which is open to the public, will salute veterans and extend gratitude for their service. Attendees must wear masks and practice
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