Getty Images (NYSE: GETY), a preeminent global visual content creator and marketplace, has announced a first-of-its-kind genealogy-focused partnership with Ancestry, the global leader in family history. As part of Getty Images’ HBCU Grants Program, this initiative will focus on the digital preservation and accessibility of historical documents, records and the photographic archives of Historically Black Colleges and Universities
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By Chantal Brown Students and mentors across the country are embracing the impact of exploring careers in STEM and agriculture with the help of historically black colleges and universities (HBCU). North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University is a part of the Youth Innovators Empowering Agriculture Across America (YEA) collaborative, which is a partnership between 4-H and seven
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One of the great HBCU players who made an impact in the NBA has died. Dick Barnett, who was a critical part of the New York Knicks’ 1970 and 1973 NBA championship teams, died Sunday at 88, six months after he was finally inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. A native of
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By Keka Araújo The Trump administration’s recent decision to rescind the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), formalized in Executive Order 14041 of September 3, 2021, represents a grave disservice to American higher education and a direct affront to the aspirations of Black students. The move, detailed in an April 23
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By Morgan State U Demonstrating excellence in financial analysis, strategy, and execution, Makia Smith, a junior Finance major in Morgan State University’s Earl G. Graves School of Business and Management, emerged as the first-place winner in the prestigious Bloomberg and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) Trading Challenge. Smith outperformed students from 10 HBCUs across the nation
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By Larry J. Sanders As part of its annual Research Month, Howard University hosted a landmark event titled “Pharmacotherapy for Minors: Pediatric Drug Development from Good Intentions to Global Abuse.” This interdisciplinary panel discussion, held April 9, convened leading voices in medicine, ethics, and pharmaceutical science to probe the difficult terrain of pediatric drug development
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By Raquel Coronell Uribe Trump signed executive orders this evening related to law enforcement, immigration and English proficiency for truck drivers. The law enforcement order focuses on state and local police forces and directs the attorney general to “prioritize the prosecution” of government officials who “willfully and unlawfully direct the obstruction of criminal law, including
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In a powerful moment for HBCUs and Black college football, Alabama A&M offensive lineman Carson Vinson has been selected by the Baltimore Ravens with the 141st overall pick in the fifth round of the 2025 NFL Draft, making him the only HBCU player drafted this year. At 6-foot-7 and 314 pounds, Vinson is a force on the
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By Pierre Thomas The Justice Department’s division tasked with enforcing the nation’s federal civil rights laws has recently seen a mass exodus of “over 100” attorneys, the newly confirmed official leading the division said in an interview this week. “What we have made very clear last week in memos to each of the 11 sections
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By Bracey Harris With its chandeliers and pink couches, Pink Noire, a Black-owned hair and beauty supply store in Memphis, Tennessee, seems a world away from the major industries caught up in the global trade war. But owner Chasity Monroe is bracing for the Trump administration’s trade policies to hit her shelves. Tariffs have hiked the import fees on
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