By Char Adams The Black-white voter turnout gap in Alabama and other states has widened in the 10 years since the Supreme Court gutted part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that for decades restricted states from enacting voting policies that stanched Black voter participation, data shows. In 2013, the court ruled 5-4 in Shelby County,
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Written By Howard University Newsroom Staff Howard University is pleased to announce the appointment of Lisa A. Crooms-Robinson, J.D., as interim dean of the Howard University School of Law. Crooms-Robinson is an internationally respected expert on constitutional law and human rights and has served as a faculty member of the School of Law since 1993. She
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By Kyla Wright The Fourth of July has come and gone, but conversations about freedom and independence don’t get old … especially among black college students. Webster’s Dictionary says freedom is the power to act without restraint, while it defines independence as not requiring or relying on others. How do students feel about the two?
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Courtesy of Alcorn State University The Bernard Osher Foundation recently awarded Alcorn State University a $50,000 grant and $1,000,000 endowment gift to support the Osher Reentry Scholarship Program. The funding will support reentry to the university for individuals between 25 – 50 years old and expand scholarship offerings from 10 to 20 per year. “We
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Courtesy of Coahoma Community College Coahoma Community College was named as the most affordable HBCU in the Nation. The company examined tuition and fee data from the 2020-21 school year in order to rank the most affordable public and private historically black colleges and universities in the United States. Today, there are over 100 HBCUs
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Courtesy of Morehouse School of Medicine Systems for Action, a national program office of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is engaging The Morehouse School of Medicine Prevention Research Center and Redemption & Advancement Alliance, Inc. in a one-year, $100,000 study, Research to Understand Systems for Housing (RUSH), to examine the feasibility and acceptability of an
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