North Carolina A&T, the nation’s largest HBCU, has wrapped up $30 million in student residence enhancements just before the 2025-26 academic year. The improvements come as the university prepares for an expected enrollment of more than 15,000 students for the 2026 school year. Major Infrastructure Improvements The upgrades cover a wide range of critical maintenance and
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As part of Legacy Week on Martha’s Vineyard, the first Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) college fair and youth exposition was held at Union Chapel on Tuesday afternoon. The event was organized by Cynthia Bradshaw, an alumnus of Hampton College. “I fell in love with going to college fairs and talking to the young
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The Las Vegas HBCU Classic has partnered with the DREAM Foundation (@dreamfndn), an organization dedicated to preparing and supporting students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) who are interested in a career in the sports industry. As part of the partnership, two student interns — Zhane McCorvey from Jackson State University and Blake Hill from Grambling State University — have been selected
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HBCU Sports is calling on readers and supporters to help raise $10,000 in the next seven days to keep its writers on the job and its independent coverage of Black college athletics alive. The 28-year-old outlet, recognized as the nation’s longest-running digital publication dedicated to historically Black colleges and universities, launched the emergency campaign Wednesday
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Written By Lexx Thornton Japan’s Toyota Motor said on Thursday it expected a hit of nearly $10 billion from President Donald Trump’s tariffs on cars imported into the United States, the highest such estimate yet by any company, underscoring growing margin pressures.  The world’s top-selling car maker also cut by 16% its forecast for full-year
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Written By Lexx Thornton Alabama A&M University welcomed a record-breaking freshman class Saturday during the annual Freshman Convocation and Torch Lighting Ceremony. The Class of 2027 is the largest in AAMU history, with over 2,000 first-time students starting classes this week. Students from 35 states and 7 countries are entering the University as freshmen.  “We’re
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Written By Lexx Thornton Lawrence Blackmon, a Mississippi State Representative, is an HBCU graduate of Howard University with a Bachelor’s degree in Communications, a J.D. from Mississippi College, as well as an LLM from George Washington University. His dad, Edward Blackmon, is also an HBCU graduate of Tougaloo College and has been a practicing lawyer
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Three states have moved to deploy hundreds of members of their national guard to the nation’s capital as part of the Trump administration’s effort to overhaul policing in Washington through a federal crackdown. West Virginia said it was deploying 300 to 400 guard troops, while South Carolina pledged 200 and Ohio said it would send 150 in
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an event at the Kennedy Center on August 13, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump announced country music artist George Strait, actor Michael Crawford, actor Sylvester Stallone, singer Gloria Gaynor and members of the rock band Kiss as the first nominees of the annual Kennedy Center Honors since taking control
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By Jonathan Allen and Megan Lebowitz In the end, President Donald Trump’s offer was one that Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser could not refuse. In mobilizing the D.C. National Guard, pressing federal agents into urban law enforcement and taking control of the Metropolitan Police Department — all in the name of fighting violent crime in the nation’s capital — Trump
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