As the United States marks only the second federally recognized Juneteenth, Black Americans living overseas have embraced the holiday as a day of reflection and an opportunity to educate people in their host countries on Black history. President Joe Biden moved quickly last year to federally recognize the day Black Americans have been celebrating since the last
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By Grace Hayba Two Louisville universities are teaming up to provide better resources to their students and staff. The two schools have advocated for better programs for each other for years, and on Thursday morning, the presidents of both universities put pen to paper to make that relationship official. Sitting side-by-side Thursday morning, Spalding University
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By Kyle Kidd Jackson State University recently received the 2022 ‘Tobacco Control Health Leadership Award from the Arizonans Concerned About Smoking, Arizona NAACP, and the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Officers Association during the U.S. Public Health Service Symposium. This award recognizes JSU’s role model tobacco-free campus policy in which tobacco product is defined as
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By Alexis Clark The Tennessee State University National Alumni Association (TSUNAA) turned the City of Miami “Blue and White” for the 66th National Convention in the sunshine state. It had been four years since TSUNAA held an in-person annual convention due to the pandemic. More than 200 members attended the alumni conference including TSU President Glenda Glover. The three-day
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By Sholnn Z. Freeman The American Cancer Society (ACS) has awarded Howard University a four-year $4.08 million grant to establish a Cancer Health Equity Research Center (CHERC), one of multiple such centers that ACS is creating with other educational institutions and amounts to an investment of $16 million nationally. ACS officials said addressing the root causes of
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By Andrew Skerritt A Florida A&M University (FAMU) College of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Institute of Public Health (CoPPS,IPH) faculty member secured an estimated $2.5 million from the Florida Department of Children and Families to continue collaborative efforts to support the wellness of the state’s first responders. This new award is in addition to more
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Courtesy of Texas Southern University Texas Southern University has joined a group of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and other minority-serving institutions (MSIs) in an innovative new partnership. The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) announced its HBCU-MSI Course-Sharing Consortium, a collaboration designed to help HBCUs and MSIs enable students to stay on track toward
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By Spelman College Spelman College announced today that it will name the new 84,000-square-foot Center for Innovation & the Arts in honor of Mary Schmidt Campbell, Ph.D., the 10th president of the College. A new “front porch” for Spelman College, the Center for Innovation & the Arts (CI&A), will be a home to Spelman’s thriving arts
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