A few weeks ago, Republican election officials in Colorado began receiving unsolicited calls and texts from a GOP consultant who said he was working with the Trump administration on “election integrity.” In a text to one of the officials, the consultant, Jeff Small, indicated he was acting on a request from Stephen Miller, the White
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The historic Grand Central Air Terminal in Glendale, CA—once the departure site for aviation icons like Howard Hughes and Walt Disney himself—became the launchpad for the next generation of creative pioneers at the 2025 HBCU IN LA Student Showcase on Friday, August 1. Presented by the Entertainment Industry College Outreach Program (EICOP) in partnership with
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Morgan State University has unveiled a groundbreaking technology. Autonomous Wheelchair Technology According to information shared with AFROTECH™, the Historically Black College and University (HBCU) and Carnegie-classified high research (R2) institution is responsible for releasing an autonomous wheelchair technology to help disabled populations navigate busy areas such as airports, hospitals, museums, college campuses, and military bases. Supported by more than five years
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Connecting high-paying Silicon Valley jobs with Black students is the mission of congressman Ro Khanna. Khanna has partnered with Jackson State University to encourage students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities to involve themselves in careers at top corporate tech companies, beginning in his district – the 17th congressional district in California. “There are ambitious
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Written By Lexx Thornton President Donald Trump’s administration announced Tuesday a $3.89 billion public-private partnership loan to add toll lanes along a 16-mile section of Ga. 400. According to U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, the loan originates from the Build America Bureau and is for a public-private partnership between the Georgia Department of Transportation, the
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Written By Lexx Thornton Dr. LaKisha Atkins was drawn to Prairie View A&M University for its Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) program, hailed as “the only one of its kind” in the Gulf Coast region. She was seeking more than just a credential. She wanted to experience the spirit of a Historically Black College and
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Written By Lexx Thornton President Donald Trump is still defending the Confederacy in 2025. The National Park Service announced on Aug. 4 that it intends to restore and reinstall a monument honoring Albert Pike just miles from the U.S. Capitol grounds. The announcement fails to mention that Pike was a Confederate general who fought to
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By Kimmy Yam President Donald Trump is expected to sign a directive on Thursday mandating that universities provide admissions data to prove that they are not implementing affirmative action policies, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on X. Leavitt did not disclose the criteria that the administration will use to determine whether schools are practicing race-conscious admissions.
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On August 7, 2025, UNCF’s Institute for Capacity Building announced the launch of its “Wealth in Numbers” campaign, an effort designed to better understand wealth building perspectives of students, faculty and staff at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The campaign will offer a $10,000 prize to the HBCU with the highest response rate. The survey is
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By Ben Kamisar, Natasha Korecki and Adam Edelman As dozens of Texas state House Democrats near the one-week mark of their quorum break, fleeing the state indefinitely to prevent state GOP leaders from redrawing congressional lines, it’s not just politics that loom over the strategy. It’s money, too. The Democrats face a $500 fine for each day they’re “absent
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