By Alexis Clark Tennessee State University’s Grammy-award winning Aristocrat of Bands marched through the doors of the Grand Ole Opry with Tiger spirit for their historic debut in front of thousands. Fondly referred to as AOB, the band has had many firsts, with appearances across country at several iconic venues. Now, the trailblazing band can
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By Meron Moges-Gerbi The men’s swimming and diving team at Howard University won the 2023 Northeast Conference Championship on Saturday, the team’s first title in more than 30 years, the school’s athletic department tweeted. The all-Black swim team earned 928 points during five days of competition in Geneva, Ohio, surpassing four other teams by a margin of 169
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By Alex Glaze Trueman Pratt founded Orchard Street Church with prayer meetings in 1825. He was also a trustee and layman in the church. In 1837, the church was built, and today, that building stands as the oldest standing structure built by slaves and freed African-Americans in Baltimore. For nearly two centuries, Orchard Street Church
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By Cynthia Abrams Nashville’s Metro Council has unanimously voted to reinstate freshman Democrat Justin Jones to his seat in the Tennessee House. The GOP-led legislature expelled Jones last week for gun reform protests he led on the chamber floor after the Covenant School shooting. The vote puts Jones into the seat on an interim basis until a
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Leo D. Sullivan, an Emmy-winning pioneer in animation with a career of over 50 years and work on dozens of cartoons, has died. He was 82. Sullivan died March 25 of heart failure at Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Medical Center. Throughout his career, Sullivan helped bring characters to life through his animation, storyboarding, directing
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By Janelle Sears On “Match Day,” when thousands of medical school students anxiously awaited news of where they would serve their residency, Florida A&M University alumna Tamia Potter made history. The Tallahassee native became the first Black female to join the neurosurgery residency program at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) in Nashville. “You read about moments
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Courtesy of Langston University Langston University commemorated the opening of a state-of-the-art Allied Health Facility on its Tulsa Campus with a ribbon-cutting ceremony held Wednesday. The 17,000-square-foot building, home to the Langston University School of Nursing and Health Professions in Tulsa, was built through a $16.25 million allotment from Vision Tulsa. The facility includes simulation
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