Courtesy of North Carolina Central University N.C. Central University’s online program was ranked No.3 by Forbes magazine among all HBCUs this past June, as NCCU continued its push towards increasing its overall enrollment through online enrollment.  Forbes attributed its high ranking of NCCU’s online program to its high retention rate of 75%, low in-state tuition and advantageous location in the
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Grambling State University will commemorate 124 years of legacy, leadership, and learning with its annual Founder’s Celebration on Thursday, October 30, at 10 a.m. in the Fredrick C. Hobdy Assembly Center. The keynote address will be delivered by Dr. Melva K. Wallace, seventh president and chief executive officer of Huston–Tillotson University in Austin, Texas. The
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By Scott Wong and Kyle Stewart  Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes on Tuesday filed a lawsuit to try to force House Speaker Mike Johnson to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, the Arizona Democrat who won her late father’s seat in a special election nearly one month ago. Johnson, R-La., has said he will seat Grijalva once Senate Democrats agree
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The National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) has released a new report regarding the status of different specialties within the physician assistant (PA) field, including the racial representation among PAs in each specialty. As of 2024, Black PAs represent just 3.9 percent of all PAs working in primary care settings in the United States, only
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Written by Lexx Thornton Alcorn State University, in partnership with Mississippi State University’s (MSU) Center for Cyber Education, will host a Cybersecurity Readiness Workshop for small businesses and municipalities beginning with an in-person kickoff on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025. The workshop, hosted by Alcorn’s Office of Economic Development & Community Engagement, aims to address the
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Courtesy of Clark Atlanta University Clark Atlanta University (CAU) announced today it will receive $16.5 million as part of the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation’s landmark $50 million, 10-year scholarship commitment to Atlanta’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). This transformative gift, the largest private donation in CAU’s history, will provide critical financial support to
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Throughout its history, Howard University has been a hotbed of Black political thought, with visits from political organizations like Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). However, the announcement that BLEXIT, a conservative political organization, intends to visit Howard and nine other HBCUs
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Written by Lexx Thornton On Monday afternoon, Amazon Web Services (AWS) finally confirmed it had resolved a massive cloud hosting outage that had caused widespread disruption for millions of internet users globally. The event, which Reuters called “global turmoil,” was reportedly the worst outage since last year’s CrowdStrike incident. As the world’s largest cloud provider,
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Written By Lexx Thornton With Significant Gains in Graduate, Transfer, and Black Male Student Enrollment, Morgan State Solidifies Its Position as One of the Nation’s Fastest-Growing HBCUs BALTIMORE — Morgan State University’s steady rise in national prominence and student demand shows no signs of slowing. For the fifth consecutive year, the University has set a
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Written By Lexx Thornton A burgeoning local reparations initiative in Detroit, Michigan, is making tangible strides in building Black generational wealth by providing direct funding for homeownership and crucial support for ancestral research. The organization, Reparation Generation, recently expanded its impact after appointing its first executive director, Christian Harris, last year. The group is dedicated
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