By Char Adams A group of Black leaders and locals marched through Columbus, Ohio, in a unity rally Sunday, one day after neo-Nazis walked through the same streets carrying Nazi flags and chanting racial slurs and white nationalist slogans. The Rev. Derrick Holmes, senior pastor at Columbus’ Union Grove Baptist Church, said he received frantic calls from members
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By Candace McDuffie As President-elect Donald Trump continues to handpick members of his Cabinet, it appears as though the Black conservatives who backed him at mind-boggling levels are nowhere to be found. Here are the ones that got noticeably left in the dust. After he tried—and failed—to become the Republican presidential nominee, U.S. South Carolina Senator Tim
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By Kyra Alessandrini A coach and 36 players were suspended after a brawl erupted on the football field following a Friday game between Howard University and North Carolina Central University. According to ABC11, NCCU had 19 players and an assistant coach suspended, while Howard had 17 players suspended. No names were released. “The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference has a zero-tolerance policy for fighting,
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By Ashley Brown The Tidewater Education Consortium, which includes Norfolk State University, has reached a significant milestone in its mission to transform teacher education in Virginia. The U.S. Department of Education has awarded TEC approximately $9 million through the Teacher Quality Partnership. This funding will support collaborative efforts among the Isle Wight County and Suffolk
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Courtesy of Jackson State Athletics The latest NCAA Graduation Success Rate (GSR) Report was released on Wednesday by the NCAA, and Jackson State ranks among the best in the nation and HBCUs with an overall department GSR of 87 percent. Four teams achieved a perfect score on this report for Jackson State including men’s tennis,
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By Alexander Alter Percival Everett won the National Book Award for fiction on Wednesday for his novel “James,” a propulsive and slyly funny retelling of Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the perspective of Huck’s companion, an enslaved man named James. In accepting the award, Everett said that seeing people coming together to celebrate
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