Courtesy of The United Negro College Fund As the nation observes Black History Month 2024, UNCF (United Negro College Fund) is celebrating and acknowledging the fact that Black History Month is every day because Black Lives Matter every day! UNCF is continuing to make history by serving as the largest scholarship provider for students of
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By Anthony Howard Jackson State University has been selected to join the Battery Workforce Challenge Program, tasked with designing and developing advanced batteries to electrify the transportation and energy sectors. Of the 12 North American universities chosen to compete, four are minority-serving institutions; of those four, JSU is the only HBCU. The U.S. Department of
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Courtesy of Stillman College It was a “Glory Hallelujah Day,” according to officials with the UNCF (United Negro College Fund) and Stillman College President Yolanda W. Page following the landmark $100 million grant announcement today. Page was on hand at a media event at Clark Atlanta University, where UNCF announced the $100 million unrestricted grant
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By Alexis Clark Call on the Grammy Award-winning Aristocrat of Bands (AOB), and you shall receive a historic performance. Tennessee State University’s AOB celebrated the anniversary of their Grammy win by delivering a performance inspired by the ‘Best Country Album’ Grammy nominees of this year’s award show. CBS contacted AOB for the performance to gear
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Written By Shanelle Genai Respected hip-hop journalist Dee Barnes is speaking out following the 66th annual Grammy Awards that saw rapper Jay-Z take home the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award. For context, the inaugural award kicked off on 2022 with its first recipient being Dre. Dre himself and seeks to honor artists who have used their influence and platform
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By Markita C. Rowe North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University theatre arts program alumna NaTasha Yvette Williams ‘92 has won a 2024 Grammy Award as a principal vocalist. Williams triumphed in the category of Best Musical Theater Album for her outstanding contribution to “Some Like It Hot,” a jazz age musical adaptation of the
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Courtesy of Louisiana State University Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are public and private institutions established before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in the United States. From their inception, HBCUs gifted Black people with access to education, which was denied to them during slavery and segregation. The institutions also provided a safe space
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Written By Ron-rin Yu For a man prevented from receiving an education because he was Black, then denied entrance into medical school for what he believes was the same reason, Alexander Thomas Augusta made amazing strides for both education and medicine. Despite being born to free parents in Norfolk, Virginia, Augusta was not permitted to
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By Char Adams Some 100 people — Black and white, from elementary school-aged children to adults in their 80s filed into the Agape Perfecting Praise and Worship Center in Orlando in October. They were there for a lesson in Black history from LaVon Bracy, the director of democracy at Faith in Florida, an Orlando-based religious nonprofit.
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Courtesy of Hampton University Hampton University School of Science, Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders proudly announces the commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of its groundbreaking degree-granting program for African American speech pathologists and audiologists, on February 2, at 6pm in the McGrew Towers Conference Center on campus. The event is open to the public.
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