By Alex Gangitano Vice President Harris and her team are interviewing running mate candidates before she announces her pick next week, and the top choices all have established relationships with Harris, which could influence her decision. In her time as attorney general of California, U.S. senator and vice president, Harris has gotten to know those who have been identified as
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By Alexandra E. Pedri After Lauren Scruggs clinched the gold medal for the United States in the women’s fencing team foil competition on Thursday, she threw off her mask and spun around, her eyes and mouth wide open. It was the team’s first-ever gold in the event. But it wasn’t the first big moment for Scruggs at
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Courtesy of Morehouse School of Medicine An accomplished researcher in genetics and sickle cell disease is returning to Georgia to lead a science and medical collaborative that aims to find new treatments and cures for the disease. Solomon F. Ofori-Acquah, PhD, is currently director of two research enterprises, both of which he started: the West
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By Richard Sandomir Gail Lumet Buckley, who rather than follow her mother, Lena Horne, into show business, wrote two multigenerational books about their ambitious Black middle-class family, died on July 18 at her home in Santa Monica, Calif. She was 86. Her daughter Jenny Lumet, a screenwriter and film and television producer, said the cause
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By Vaughn Wilson Hurricane Debby has Savannah State in its sights, and other HBCUs could feel its impact. Tropical Storm Debby became a hurricane on Sunday night after churning in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. On Saturday night it began dropping heavy rains in South Florida on the western shores. It battered Naples and
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By Sarah Weissman Imani Smith, a rising senior at Howard University, was out grabbing food with friends when her group chats with her sorority sisters “started blowing up.” Smith, on a social media break at the time, rushed to re-download Instagram to see article after article about Vice President Kamala Harris running for president. She
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By Hayya Shah On July 16, the Biden-Harris Administration announced that Howard University has recently been selected to participate in the $160M U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) project for reducing embodied greenhouse gas emissions for construction materials and products. Over 15% of annual global greenhouse gas emissions are estimated annually by the EPA as being
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