Coahoma Community College (CCC) is proud to announce that it has been awarded a $40,000 grant from the HBCU Brilliance Initiative, a transformative national program led by the Reinvestment Fund, a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) with headquarters in Philadelphia and Atlanta. This award marks a significant milestone in Coahoma’s ongoing mission to provide a modern, sustainable, and student-centered
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The 2025 HBCU football season has one headline anyone paying attention already knows: Virginia Union is one win away from a CIAA three-peat. The Panthers ran through conference play again, sitting a single victory from becoming the first team in more than three decades to win three straight titles — and the only active CIAA program with two dynastic eras. That’s
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The first-ever HBCU gymnast is adding another milestone to her trailblazing journey—becoming a proud member of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. Known for breaking barriers in collegiate gymnastics and representing the growing legacy of HBCU athletic excellence, Naimah Muhammad is now continuing that spirit of sisterhood, scholarship, and service through one of the Divine Nine’s
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The HBCU Oratorical Challenge, a national competition that showcases the voices of students attending historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), is open for submissions. The deadline to register is Dec. 15, 2025. The competition encourages students currently enrolled at HBCUs to express their ideas, engage in thoughtful public discourse, strengthen communication skills, build leadership capabilities and hone creativity
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By Sahil Kapur, Melanie Zanona and Julie Tsirkin WASHINGTON — Inside a closed-door meeting of House Republicans on Tuesday, Rep. Jen Kiggans, a swing district member who is a linchpin of the party’s narrow majority, stood up and made a plea. “Doing nothing on health care is not the right answer,” the Virginia Republican later told NBC News, summing
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Written by Sean Mitchell The University of the District of Columbia (UDC), Washington, D.C.’s only public university and the nation’s only urban land-grant HBCU, has achieved a major milestone — ranking #18 among all Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and #9 among public HBCUs in the U.S. News & World Report 2025 rankings. The
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By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON — Seizing on allegations of federal law enforcement officials’ committing constitutional violations as part of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, Democrats have launched a new effort to allow civil rights claims against rogue agents. Lawmakers reintroduced legislation Tuesday that would ensure federal officials, including immigration agents and other law enforcement officers, can be sued individually for constitutional
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By Blaise Gainey, Andrew Schneider Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has quickly appealed to the Supreme Court a ruling that the redistricting passed by lawmakers at the urging of President Trump was based on racial gerrymandering. “Any claim that these maps are discriminatory is absurd and unsupported by the testimony offered during ten days of hearings,”
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