By Steve Kopack Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook sued President Donald Trump on Thursday, the beginning of a landmark legal battle over what she calls Trump’s “unprecedented and illegal” efforts to remove her from the central bank and the committee that makes decisions about the nation’s interest rates. Cook also seeks an emergency temporary restraining order
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Returning for its fifth year at the 2025 US Open, HBCU Live celebrated the culture, legacy and pride of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). This year’s event held special significance, aligning with the US Open theme of the 75th anniversary of Althea Gibson breaking the color barrier in tennis. Gibson, an alumna of Florida
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The first Black mayor of a tiny Alabama town overwhelmingly won election this week, four years after white residents locked him out of the town hall and refused to let him serve. Incumbent Mayor Patrick Braxton was elected as the mayor of Newbern, winning 66 votes to his opponent’s 26, according to results posted by the town.
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By Erika Edwards and Berkeley Lovelace Jr. An escalating conflict over an influential vaccine committee was one of the final straws that led to the firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez and the exodus of other highly regarded top officials. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had repeatedly undermined the agency’s independent Advisory Committee on
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Written by Lexx Thornton The 2150 Center for Innovation, Commercialization & Growth expanded its national footprint with the launch of its Infrastructure iLAB focused on Public-Private Partnership (P3) Knowledge Center in New York City. This initiative builds on 2150’s commitment to fostering innovation ecosystems rooted in Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) by creating high-growth,
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Virginia State University (VSU), a proud HBCU, honors Dr. Latorial Faison, Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of Languages & Literature, for her remarkable achievement in poetry. Her latest book, Nursery Rhymes in Black, has earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination in Poetry, one of the most prestigious awards in American literature. Pulitzer Prize Nomination for Nursery Rhymes in Black
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As a tech founder, Eno Oduok has a vision for energy management that makes her a trailblazer in the field. A master’s student at Prairie View A&M, the future HBCU graduate aims to optimize energy through her startup, el powr, a management platform that utilizes AI. Studying business administration, her idea resulted in a third-place win
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By David K. Li More than a decade ago, Mo’ne Davis took the baseball world by storm as a Little League World Series icon who donned the cover of Sports Illustrated. She’s since earned an Ivy League graduate degree and happily ended her competitive sports career to dive headfirst into adulthood. That was until this past
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Atlanta-based Southface Institute has partnered with the Sustain Our Future Foundation on Building Improvement Toolkits (BIT) for Resilient HBCU, an initiative aiming to advance sustainability efforts within five historically Black colleges and universities. What will the initiative include? Each participating HBCU will receive $150,000 in grants to help each school reach its sustainability goals, as well as for workforce development, training,
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By Erika Edwards and Berkeley Lovelace Jr. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention leadership was in stunning disarray Wednesday evening after the Trump administration fired the agency’s director hours after she refused to resign under pressure. The director, Susan Monarez, said she was resisting being ousted by the nation’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for
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