Tennessee State University has announced Nolan Smith as the new head coach of its men’s basketball team, bringing in a former NBA player, national champion at Duke University, and one of the most respected young minds in college basketball to the Nashville HBCU. “It’s an honor and a privilege to be named head coach at TSU,”
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With a month remaining before the start of the 2025 HBCU football season, Edward Waters head coach Toriano Morgan resigned. According to a report from Football Scoop, Morgan is stepping away from the team for personal reasons and intends to return to coaching soon. The development comes just a day after Morgan and members Edward Waters
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Written By Lexx Thornton A new state law will allow students across South Carolina to be taught by someone without ateaching certificate beginning this upcoming school year. It comes as the state continues tograpple with a years-long educator shortage. It’s a new tactic lawmakers have implemented in an attempt to turn that shortage around. “We
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Written By Lexx Thornton The man who wants to be Georgia’s next governor has put in place a plan to eliminate the state’s income tax. “Last year, nine states cut individual income taxes, and three others cut corporate income taxes,”Jones said. “Among southeast states, only South Carolina currently has a higher income tax rate than
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Written By Lexx Thornton Wiley University proudly announces the launch of its Financial Literacy and Wellness Community Access Programs, a powerful new initiative made possible by a grant from the T.D. Jake’s Foundation and Wells Fargo Bank. This announcement marks the beginning of Phase II of the university’s financial wellness programming and coincides with its
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Actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner has reportedly died as a result of an accidental drowning during a family vacation in Costa Rica, according to TMZ. Many fans and admirers, like myself, are devastated by a young inspirational talent lost, who was beloved by so many. Warner was 54. Warner charismatically embodied the essence of Theo, the lone
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The Trump administration has released records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate’s family and the civil rights group that he led until his 1968 assassination. The release involves more than 240,000 pages of records that had been under a court-imposed seal since 1977, when the FBI first gathered
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By Sahil Kapur President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” which he signed into law this month, will add $3.4 trillion to the U.S. national debt over the next decade, according to a report the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office published Monday. The report found that the law, which Republicans passed along party lines, will also “increase by 10 million
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By Patrick Smith, Marlene Lenthang and Tim Stelloh The Kentucky police officer who blindly fired 10 bullets into Breonna Taylor’s home in 2020 during a botched raid has been sentenced to nearly three years, her family’s lawyer said Monday. Former Louisville Metro Police Department detective Brett Hankison was sentenced to 33 months Monday after he was convicted of deprivation of
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An HBCU has decided to remove a Black Greek Letter Organization from its campus following the death of a student pledge. Southern University has expelled the Beta Sigma chapter of Omega Psi Phi following an investigation into hazing practices that led to the death of Caleb Wilson this past February. Wilson, 20, was a member of
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