Written by Lexx Thornton Good job, Mr. Milchik. You just made history. For his chilling performance as the hypnotic and unnervingly cheerful Seth Milchick in Apple TV+’s genre-defying drama “Severance,” Tramell Tillman won the Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series, becoming the first Black man ever to win in the category. It
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Written By Lexx Thornton The Congressional Black Caucus demanded that the Department of Justice and the FBI “swiftly” investigate a series of threats that were made to historically Black colleges and universities across the country on Thursday. “The threats made against several Historically Black Colleges and Universities are not only vile — they are a
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Written by Lexx Thornton The Trump administration is ending several grant programs reserved for colleges that have large numbers of minority students, saying they amount to illegal discrimination by tying federal money to racial quotas. In a shift upending decades of precedent, the Education Department said Wednesday it now believes it’s unconstitutional to award federal
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By Catherine Pugh Dr. Earl Stanford Richardson, who served as the ninth president of Morgan State University from 1984 to 2010, has died at the age of 81. Dr. Richardson succeeded Dr. Andrew Billingsley and was followed by Dr. David K. Wilson, the current president of the university. In announcing Dr. Richardson’s death to the
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Last week, multiple HBCU campuses received violent threats including bomb and shooting intimidation. These incidents mirror the wave of threats that began on Jan. 1, 2022, with more than 75 HBCUs receiving targeted acts of intimidation, impacting 51 different institutions and 77 days of classes being disrupted. In recent years, the threats have happened in 18
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By Michelle Garcia and Zinhle Essamuah Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., is calling for Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to address a new jobs report that shows a disproportionate jump in the unemployment rate for Black workers, with a focus on Black women. In July, 319,000 fewer Black women were employed than in February, according to the Bureau of Labor
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By Scott Wong and Raquel Coronell Uribe The Trump administration is asking Congress to approve an additional $58 million for security to protect the executive and judicial branches following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a leadership aide confirmed to NBC News on Sunday. The Trump administration supports adding more money to protect members of Congress, too, but deferred to
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