By: Nakell Williams On her first walk through City Hall as mayor-elect, Carmalitha Gumbs says she immediately sensed a shift. Employees greeted her with congratulations and optimism — a sign, she says, that people are ready for change. Gumbs made history Tuesday night, becoming the first woman ever elected mayor of the City of South
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By Lexx Thornton Get your clear bags and your school colors ready, because the “Queen City” is about to sound a whole lot louder. On January 24, 2026, the BIG HBCU Southern Classic Battle of the Bands is doing something that has never been done in the history of the circuit: they are moving the
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By Aria Bendix  Instead of recommending the hepatitis B vaccine for all newborns, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now officially advises women who test negative for the virus to consult health care providers about whether their babies should get their first doses within 24 hours of birth. The agency’s vaccine advisory committee —
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By Dareh Gregorian, Julie Tsirkin and Sarah Dean President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to fast-track the reclassification of cannabis, which would pave the way for the Food and Drug Administration to study its medicinal uses. “It is the policy of my Administration to increase medical marijuana and CBD research to better inform patients and doctors. It is
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Marshall Faulk is working to build his coaching staff at Southern University and is making some big moves. Faulk wanted no expense spared on the staff around him, as he negotiated an assistant salary budget pool of $950,000 in his contract, per a report by WRBZ. First, Faulk is reuniting with an old teammate from the St. Louis Rams
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This offseason has seen one of the most fervent coaching carousels in recent memory in HBCU football and Howard University appears close to finding its next head football coach. The Bison head coaching job became open after longtime head coach Larry Scott departed the program to join Auburn as tight ends coach. Now, per prominent HBCU media personality Scottay
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Ernest McNealey has stepped down as president of Allen University following a decade of leadership at the Columbia, South Carolina–based institution. The university confirmed McNealey’s departure after his contract was not renewed, though officials have not disclosed the reason behind the decision. The institution released a statement confirming Dr. McNealey’s departure. Here is the full statement: I am
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The two parties both have lawsuits open, as the disgruntled professor claims she was forced out due to her whiteness. An HBCU President is embroiled in a legal battle with a former professor regarding plagiarism accusations on a decades-old dissertation. The president of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Heidi Anderson, filed a defamation suit
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Written By Lexx Thornton Congressman Dan Goldman (NY-10) today introduced the Redistribution of Billions by Instituting New High-Income Obligations on Overlooked Debt(ROBINHOOD) Act, a new federal tax on the ultra-wealthy designed to address one of the most glaring failures in the current tax code: the ability of the uber-wealthy to access enormous amounts of money
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By Lexx Thornton A deteriorated, vacant site in Vine City adjacent to the Atlanta University Center will soon be reimagined and revitalized. The Invest Atlanta Board selected Prestwick Development to redevelop the site located at the corner of Sunset Avenue and Griffin Street near the cluster of five Historically Black Colleges and Universities. There are
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