By Christopher Klein The assault on civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama helped lead to the Voting Rights Act. Nearly a century after the Confederacy’s guns fell silent, the racial legacies of slavery and Reconstruction continued to reverberate loudly throughout Alabama in 1965. On March 7, 1965, when then-25-year-old activist John Lewis led over 600 marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in
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By Eric Stirgus For more than 150 years, Morehouse College has built a reputation as a leading institution to educate Black men. It also wants to be known as the go-to place for research that results in better health, professional and societal outcomes for all Black men. The Atlanta college announced Tuesday that it has launched what
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Written by Howard University Newsroom Staff The Howard University Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (MSRC) received a $2 million grant from the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation to support the preservation and digitization of the Black Press Archives, a newspaper collection of titles by Black journalists, editors and publishers. MSRC worked in partnership with the Center for Journalism and Democracy to secure this critical gift,
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By Norfolk State University Contributions of more than 15,000 items have helped NSU’s Spartan Food Pantry provide food security, as well as other needed items, to support the academic wellness of students while attending Norfolk State University. The university thanked contributors for not only non-perishable food items but also necessary toiletries and household items. This
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By Talladega College, Alabama Power and its parent operator, Southern Company, recently donated $125K to assist in the ongoing development of Talladega College’s Civil Rights Garden. The Garden will honor Hank and Billye Aaron, who have contributed more than $700,000 in scholarship money to Talladega College students through the Chasing the Dream Foundation; Arthur Bacon,
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Courtesy of the University of the District of Columbia Yesterday morning, the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) commemorated the legacy of its alumnus Dr. Edwin B. Henderson by naming its athletics facility to the Dr. Edwin Bancroft Henderson Sports Complex during a ceremony held at the Van Ness Campus. In a surprise announcement, UDC accepted
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By Kimberly Iverson, Thanks to historic philanthropic investment, prudent financial management, and strong demand for a Howard University education, the University’s 2022 bond rating outlooks are positive. National bond rating agency Standard & Poor’s revised its outlook for Howard to positive from stable and assigned its “BBB-” rating on Howard University’s $300 million series 2022A
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By Robert Greene II The historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the United States are under attack, it seems, from multiple directions. In recent weeks, numerous HBCUs have reported bomb threats against them. Such threats have hit institutions such as Howard University in Washington, D.C., Spelman College in Atlanta, Ga., and Alcorn State in
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By Fisk University Fisk University announced the establishment of three Fellowships to support the John Lewis Center for Social Justice’s comprehensive agenda. The John Lewis Center was founded in 2019 to foster and advance social justice across every sphere of contemporary society by engendering rigorous research, applying scholarship, artistic production, and community engagement locally as
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By Lisa Kennedy, Yes, Spike Lee. This director (as well as writer and actor) is one of the best-known and -lauded filmmakers (Black or otherwise) of our time, and for good reason. But it’s high time movie lovers expanded their knowledge beyond Lee, because there’s a deep bench of talented directors who’ve made films we’ve
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