A film created by Southern University students has won the HBCU Sports Emmy. During the 2025 Sports Emmy Awards in New York City on Tuesday, May 20, SU student and director Loren Sullivan accepted the Emmy Award for the documentary “The Hidden Sport.” Sullivan was joined by team members Sydney Cuillier, Ashley Lovelace, Verbon Muhammad,
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Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) is proud to announce that Regina Benjamin, MD, MBA, 18th United States Surgeon General, will deliver the keynote address at MSM’s 41st Commencement Exercises, which will take place on Saturday, May 17, 2025. “We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Benjamin back to MSM as our Commencement Speaker,” said MSM President and
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By Raquel Coronell Uribe and Ryan J. Reilly The Justice Department has filed charges against a Democratic member of Congress, alleging that she assaulted law enforcement officers during a protest outside an immigration detention facility in New Jersey earlier this month. Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., faces two counts of assaulting, resisting, and impeding law enforcement
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By Lexx Thornton EV charging (Electric Vehicle charging) is the process of supplying electric power to recharge the battery of an electric vehicle (EV), similar to how you’d refuel a gas-powered car—but with electricity instead of gasoline or diesel. Car charging stations at colleges and universities can help improve the economy in several meaningful ways,
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By Bo Erickson and David Morgan President Donald Trump‘s tax cut and spending bill faces a critical stress test on Wednesday as Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives try to overcome internal divisions about cuts to the Medicaid health program and tax breaks in high-cost coastal states. The gate-keeping House Rules Committee has scheduled
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By Lexx Thornton FAMU alum and former Atlanta, GA mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has confirmed that she will be running for Georgia governor. Keisha Lance Bottoms, who served as Atlanta’s 60th mayor from 2018 to 2022, achieved several notable accomplishments during her tenure. While in office she established Atlanta’s first fully staffed office dedicated to
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Howard University just made history with its 157th Commencement ceremony, honoring its largest graduating class to date. On Sunday, May 11, the university conferred degrees to 3,167 students, a 13% increase from the previous year, reinforcing Howard’s position as a global leader in Black excellence and higher education. Students from 44 U.S. states and 29
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Founded in 2000, Tris Pharma, Inc. is a leading privately-owned biopharmaceutical company inthe U.S. Tris Pharma is using its industry-leading capabilities and innovative, proprietary technologies to develop and market therapies that uniquely solve some of the most difficult treatment challenges in these diseases and conditions. Over the past two decades, they have established a foundation
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Award-winning actress S. Epatha Merkerson has made a generous $1 million donation to Talladega College, an Alabama HBCU, according to multiple media reports. Merkerson served as the keynote speaker for the Alabama-based institution’s 150th commencement ceremony, held on May 4. Talladega College is the oldest private historically Black college in the state. Rica Lewis-Payton, chair of
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Clark Atlanta usually holds its commencement a day earlier. Morehouse School of Medicine and Morris Brown College held their graduation ceremonies Saturday. Bishop T.D. Jakes, Morris Brown’s commencement speaker, pledged a $100,000 gift to the college. “You’ve come too far not to get up. Fight until you build your business, company, find a cure for cancer,
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