Langston University, Oklahoma’s only HBCU, is embarking on one of its most comprehensive infrastructure overhauls in decades. Major upgrades span academic buildings, student housing, and key community spaces. The work—funded entirely through grants and state allocations—comes at no cost to students and reflects a growing commitment to modernization and long-term maintenance. “We’ve been working tirelessly to
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Livingstone College has made waves in the HBCU world and by big contributions from an anonymous donor. Add another one to the total. For the third time in just over a year, Livingstone College has received a $10 million donation from a sole anonymous benefactor—further fueling its push to be recognized as the premier private
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Ground-breaking program enters sixth year, propelled by strategic partnerships and strong record of elevating more than 170 emerging presidents and C-suite leaders at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The Executive Leadership Institute at Clark Atlanta University (HBCUELI) today announced the call for applications to join its 2026 Community of Fellows, the nation’s premier pipeline for the next generation
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The U.S. Justice Department issued a memo on Wednesday that asked recipients of federal funds to ban diversity, equity and inclusion programs, which President Donald Trump has aimed to dismantle since taking office in January. Trump has passed executive orders aimed at restricting DEI but Wednesday’s memo laid out specific examples of actions that it said federal fund recipients should restrict — such as some training sessions
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Florida A&M University’s Board of Trustees has released its 2024–25 evaluation of outgoing Interim President Timothy Beard. The results show a sharply divided set of assessments. Some trustees praised Beard for stability, legislative wins, and research growth. Others criticized his leadership, accountability, and performance. The evaluation, completed by ten named trustees and two anonymous respondents, gives a complex
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Baltimore is no longer the place it was once viewed as. It’s not the city that many outsiders romanticized through the lens of “The Wire” for the last 25 years. And Baltimore is not merely hosting the CIAA Tournament—it’s co-writing the story. Through intentional leadership, cultural alignment, and economic strategy, Mayor Brandon Scott has helped
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Written By Lexx Thornton President Trump has many times suggested that tariff revenue could replace the federal income tax. This claim is absurdly off-base, since it is mathematically impossible for tariffs, even at current levels of imports, to generate the $2.4 trillion in revenue that would be necessary. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, however, has said
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Written By Lexx Thornton Morehouse College has collaborated with the 2025–2026 Amazon-MLU Educators Consortium and Transformation Alliance, a national initiative designed to empower higher education institutions to integrate industry-aligned artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) into their curriculum. This milestone reflects Morehouse’s continued commitment to academic innovation and equity in tech education. Through this
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Written By Lexx Thornton White supremacist flyers linked to the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) have reportedly surfaced in several Ohio neighborhoods. According to WCPO, the flyers appeared in the College Hill and Madisonville neighborhoods of Cincinnati, urging white residents to arm themselves against “vicious attacks from those of color.” The flyers surfaced following a fight
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By Abigail Williams and Didi Martinez The Trump administration released its new, drastically scaled-down version of the State Department’s annual human rights report after months of delay Tuesday. The administration’s assessment of human rights abuses in some countries, which is one-tenth as long as last year’s report, reaches notably different conclusions and dedicates no sections to abuses against
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