By Char Adams When an incoming White House official announced Donald Trump’s executive order dismantling federal diversity, equity and inclusion programs, the official invoked a familiar line: “This order is meant to return to the promise and the hope that was captured by civil rights champions, that one day all Americans can be treated on the
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By Monica Lewis Bobby Wagner, a 13-year National Football League (NFL) veteran, has long been known as one of the league’s savviest business minds. Six years into his career, Wagner decided to serve as his own agent and has negotiated his last four contracts, including the one-year deal worth up to $8.5 million he signed
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By Randall Barnes At just 27 years old, Anthony Kenney, a proud alumnus of Southern University, is making history and redefining what it means to be a leader in public service. On election night in Baton Rouge, Kenney celebrated a hard-fought victory, winning the Metro Councilman seat for District 2 by a razor-thin margin of just
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Courtesy of Morehouse School of Medicine The American Heart Association’s program has the goal of increasing the number of Black students who apply and are accepted into medical schools. One of its newest participants, Jada Hall from Gulfport, is a junior chemistry major at Tougaloo College in Jackson. She is studying to become a pharmacist
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Courtesy of South Carolina State University South Carolina State University’s Institute of Business, Environment, Communications and Transportation has officially opened its new BECT Education and Research Greenhouse, marking a significant step towards enriching educational opportunities in STEM fields. The greenhouse will serve as a hub for research and experimentation, providing a space where students can directly
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By Dantee Ramos For the first time in its nearly four-decade history, the Southern University School of Nursing was voted the best nursing school in the nation. Earlier this year, Nurse.org, a website for nursing professionals and students, hosted its annual Best of Nursing Awards, with SUSON taking the top spot. Dr. Sandra Brown, the dean of nursing and allied health,
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By Zoë Richards A nonprofit organization founded by Stacey Abrams has agreed to pay a $300,000 fine for violating campaign finance laws over its spending in support of the Georgia Democrat’s candidacy during the 2018 governor’s race. The Georgia Ethics Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to impose the penalty after it found that the New Georgia Project, which Abrams
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By Tomas Kassahun In one of his final moves as President, Joe Biden posthumously pardoned Marcus Garvey, was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s. Garvey’s supporters have long argued that the conviction effort to silence the social justice champion as he fought for racial equality for Black Americans, the Associated Press reported. Garvey, who was deported to his home country Jamaica
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By Cedric Mobley The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (LL.D. ’57) visited and spoke at Howard several times, but it could not have been more fitting that Dr. Martin Luther King’s last speech at Howard was to deliver the Gandhi Memorial Lecture on November 9, 1966, just a few weeks before the university’s 100th
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By Erica Greene Former Vice President Kamala D. Harris left Washington on Monday the way she entered her role on the same day five years ago: making history. After President Trump’s inauguration, Ms. Harris headed to Joint Base Andrews to take her last official flight home to California, supported by an all-female U.S. Air Force
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