Written By Lexx Thornton The Emmy Award-winning correspondent has been promoted, bringing nearly 10 years of experience covering major national and international stories for affiliates. After leading award-winning coverage for various affiliates, Omar Jimenez is officially an anchor at CNN. On Wednesday, September 10, the 31-year-old journalist announced his promotion in an Instagram post. “I’m
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Written by Lexx Thornton Presented by the HBCU Labor Day Classic Battle of the Bands, the 2025 Big HBCU Battle of the Bands will be held on Sunday, September 14, at Charlie W. Johnson Stadium, 1920 Two Notch Road. This highly anticipated event will bring together some of the nation’s most dynamic Historically Black College
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Written By Lexx Thornton Recently, 48 students walked through the doors of the Alice L. Walton School of Medicine in Bentonville, Ark., to become its inaugural class. Some came from neighboring cities, others from urban centers in Michigan and New York. Almost all had a choice in where they could become doctors, but took a
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From a Hampton Ski Trip to a National Footprint In the early 2010s, every year a group of Hampton alumni hit the slopes in the Poconos. One year, it was Carrington’s turn to plan the trip. He found the perfect house, coordinated with the owner, collected the group’s payments—and had a lightbulb moment: Why not own
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This wasn’t the plot for the next big reality TV show, but the first-ever Cyber and AI Capture the Flag competition. The event was a collaboration between PlayCyber, an esports company that focuses on cybersecurity games, the 1890 Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting and fostering the 19 land-grant HBCUs created by the Second Morill
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We stand in solidarity with the historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) targeted today after violent threats were directed at their campuses. Unfortunately this has become an all-too common occurrence in recent years, causing disruption, chaos and forcing evacuations and closures. While these criminal incidents are extremely disturbing and temporarily disruptive to our campus communities,
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HBCUs within the Atlanta University Center have already gotten to work with the $55 million gifted by MacKenzie Scott. Scott donated the lofty sum to the schools following her divorce from Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos. She acquired a portion of their Amazon stock, which held a price tag of more than $38 billion. On her
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Written By Lexx Thornton The United States has the most expensive health care in the developed world. Now it’s about to get even more expensive. Some 154 million people get health insurance through their employer, and many could see their paycheck deductions surge next year by 6% to 7% on average. Some will likely also
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Written By Lexx Thornton MSNBC has apologized and reportedly fired analyst Matthew Dowd over on-air comments he made about the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Multiple media outlets, including Deadline, Variety, and The Hollywood Reporter, reported that the network had fired Dowd, whose comments sparked backlash after Kirk, a close political ally of
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At least five historically Black colleges locked down campuses, canceled classes or ordered students to shelter in place after receiving “credible threats” of violence on Thursday. Many of the precautionary measures are no longer in place. Alabama State University, Bethune-Cookman University, Virginia State University, Hampton University in Virginia, Clark Atlanta University in Georgia and Southern
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