Houston native and global superstar Beyoncé Knowles-Carter has donated $100,000 to Texas Southern University’s renowned Ocean of Soul Marching Band. The gift, made through her BeyGOOD Foundation, is aimed at supporting the band’s musical excellence and academic achievement, according to the Houston Chronicle. The donation follows the Ocean of Soul’s high-profile collaboration with Beyoncé during the
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City councilors are exploring ways to bring a historically Black college or university presence to Boston for the first time. Council Vice President Brian Worrell called for a hearing at last week’s meeting that will focus on creating an HBCU satellite campus in Boston. “An HBCU presence would provide role models for current Black students
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By Minyvonne Burke, Joe Kottke and Tyler Kingkade The president of the University of Virginia is resigning following pressure from the Trump administration to step aside amid a Justice Department investigation into the school’s diversity practices. James E. Ryan convened a meeting with his senior leadership Friday and announced that he would be stepping down, according to a source
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By Stephen Corder In basketball, every detail tells a story, from the sneakers on the court to the stitching on the jersey. For the CIAA and Under Armour, those details go beyond performance. They speak to the culture. Earlier this year, the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association announced it had extended its exclusive partnership with Under
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There are currently 101 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the U.S. While these schools are only 3% of all higher education institutions in this country, they educate 10% of all Black college students. They account for approximately 50% of all Black doctors and lawyers. In its 2021 report HBCUs Transforming Generations: Social Mobility Outcomes
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DeSean Jackson is stepping into his first season as head coach at Delaware State. He’s all set to begin this new chapter in his life. His vision goes far beyond just wins and losses; he wants to get more people taking note of HBCU programs. Following in the footsteps of Deion Sanders’ transformative run at Jackson State,
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By Raquel Coronell Uribe While Congress scrambles to pass President Donald Trump’s massive domestic policy bill, many red states are already implementing key aspects of his agenda through new laws this week. For most states, Tuesday is the start of a new fiscal year, when numerous laws take effect. Some of the statutes in Trump-won states this year mirror
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By Steve Berkowitz While the NCAA has informed schools that they may provide up to $20.5 million in new benefits for athletes during the 2025-26 school year as part of the settlement of three athlete-compensation antitrust cases against the association and the Power Five conferences, the plaintiffs’ lawyers say they are exercising their right to have the data
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By Aria Bendix More than 14 million people could die over the next five years because of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, according to an analysis published Monday in the medical journal The Lancet. Researchers calculated the lifesaving benefits of USAID funding over a 21-year period, then used the data to
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By Shannon Pettypiece Legislation making its way through the Senate stands to have wide-ranging effects across the economy — bolstering tax benefits for businesses and higher-income households while threatening health insurance for millions of Americans and putting thousands of clean energy and health care jobs at risk. The bill, which is more than 900 pages
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