Courtesy of Morehouse School of Medicine Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, PhD, MPH, anti-racism thought leader and activist, today received the 2023 Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award. Jones’ work focuses on naming, measuring and addressing the impacts of racism on the health and well-being of our nation and the world. She is a Leverhulme visiting professor
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Courtesy of Cheyney University The NBA’s All-Star Game weekend came and went in February, but for Cheyney University of Pennsylvania senior Nathan Rosario, the memories, and connections, may last a lifetime. Sitting a few rows from the court during the NBA-HBCU Classic game, Rosario, a business administration major and guard for the men’s basketball team,
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Courtesy of Lincoln University of Missouri Lincoln University of Missouri’s (LU) Nyah Singh has been selected as the first LU participant for the Milken Institute’s inaugural HBCU Fellowship Program, a program created in order to recruit top talent from a geographically diverse group of HBCUs. A junior at LU majoring in health and wellness (sports management)
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By Jalen Brown Langston University announced this week it will clear student balances for a second time in recent years to “lessen the burden” of those enrolled in the school. More than $4.5 million in student debt is being canceled at the historically Black university in Oklahoma, Langston President Kent J. Smith Jr. said Wednesday in
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Courtesy of Howard University Adventist HealthCare and Howard University, which operates the Howard Faculty Practice Plan, have signed a two-year management services agreement in which Adventist HealthCare will support and manage all practice operations at the Faculty Practice Plan. The agreement begins April 1, 2023. Adventist HealthCare will bring in a new leadership team over the next several
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By D. Thompson The Tower Road Bus Documentary chronicles how integrating the Prince George’s County Schools through forced busing impacted and changed the lives of students, teachers, and a principal who all received their undergraduate or graduate degrees from Bowie State. The film brings focus to the events that occurred 50 years ago surrounding school
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By Christina Compere Florida A&M University’s (FAMU) recent graduate Shereca Florestial received the Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Scholarship (FDBS) from the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) today. Florestial, from Kissimmee, Florida, who was a Health Information and Informatics Management major, received a $10,000 scholarship. “I’m really excited and I am living proof that you can go
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