By David Struett Malcolm X College’s satellite campus on the West Side is one of City Colleges of Chicago’s most outdated buildings. Despite undergoing a $5 million renovation half a decade ago, the exterior of the West Side Learning Center at 4624 W. Madison St. still looks like it’s from the 1980s. That’s why school officials
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By Joseph H. Silver, Sr. The country that was once guided by the words on the Statue of Liberty is hardly recognizable today. Politics aside, there is no real excuse for the level of meanspiritedness being exhibited across this country. We have drifted into a space and time where “truth” means absolutely nothing. Lies can
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Coco Gauff knew the perfect word to describe her victory on Day 1 of the U.S. Open on Monday night. “Slow,” Gauff said during her on-court interview, then sort of suppressed a smile and paused for effect, drawing laughter from a packed Arthur Ashe Stadium crowd that rattled her opponent, Laura Siegemund. What Gauff meant was the pace of Siegemund,
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By Emmanuel Freeman Tennessee State University recently hosted its highly anticipated ‘Honors Crossing Over and Induction Ceremony’ to induct 190 exceptional students into the prestigious TSU Honors College. The event Sunday served as a platform to recognize the outstanding academic achievements and dedication of these newly inducted students. Representing TSU President Glenda Glover as the
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By Gevin Reynolds Sixty years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. outlined his dream for America. The motivation for his message – “we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check” – was as much economic as it was ethical. After all, the March on Washington was for both jobs and freedom. Those both came slowly over the
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Courtesy of Morehouse School of Medicine Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) and Emory University are proud to announce that they have been selected by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as one of 12 grantees to create Maternal Health Research Centers of Excellence in order to develop and evaluate innovative approaches to reduce pregnancy-related complications and deaths and to promote
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Courtesy of Stillman College Stillman College has been awarded a grant to develop the Stillman-Brown Memorial Child Care Program, an initiative that will provide child care services to more than 100 students who are parents on campus. The grant is being awarded by the Alabama Power Foundation. The child care program is a partnership between
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Courtesy of Hampton University Underpinning the pursuit to enhance stakeholder engagement, Hampton University President Darrell K. Williams has appointed Apryl D. Roberts to the Office of the President as Director of Protocol and Special Events. She will oversee the planning, management, and delivery of a portfolio of events and drive counsel on procedural and diplomatic
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By Valerie Montgomery Rice, MD; Martha L. Elks, MD, PhD; and Mark Howse, PhD The US Supreme Court’s June 29, 2023, ruling on Students for Fair Admissions, Inc v University of North Carolina and the paired case against Harvard overturned nearly 50 years of the use of affirmative action in higher education to address the
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By Scoop Jackson Let’s hope it doesn’t come to this. But let’s also not be naive enough to think that there’s not a chance in hell that it won’t. The minute Ben Crump’s name came up as one of the legal representatives in a potential lawsuit against Northwestern, former football coach Pat Fitzgerald and university president Michael
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