By Josh Cradduck and Reuters The company that owns the iconic luxury retailer Saks Fifth Avenue filed for bankruptcy late Tuesday. The move comes after Saks Global struggled with debt it took on to buy rival Neiman Marcus, lagging department store sales and a rising online market. It’s one of the largest retail collapses since the Covid-19 pandemic, and casts
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By Javacia Harris Bower | Alabama News Center This month, Jacqueline Allen Trimble – an award-winning poet and professor of English and chair of the Department of Languages and Literatures at Alabama State University – will be commissioned by Gov. Kay Ivey as the new poet laureate for the state of Alabama. Trimble was selected for the role by the Alabama Writers’ Cooperative in
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Dr. Marvalene Hughes, who became the first woman president of Dillard University and led the historic New Orleans HBCU through one of the most devastating natural disasters in American higher education history, died. Hughes’ presidency, which began July 1, 2005, was immediately tested when Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast barely one month into her
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Despite historic underfunding from the state of Tennessee and recent challenges with leadership turnover and student enrollment, Tennessee State University has made major improvements to its fiscal stability. In the fall 2024 semester, total enrollment at Tennessee State University dropped by some 23 percent. That same semester, administrators told the HBCU’s board of trustees that the university was headed
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The mother of Caleb Wilson is expressing frustration at Southern University. Following the last meeting of the task force named after her son, who passed away last year following an Omega Psi Phi hazing ritual, Urania Wilson asked if the Beta Sigma chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Incorporated, would be welcome back on campus following their recent
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Social House Vodka today announced a new partnership with The Gold Standard, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization and official charitable partner of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB), to launch 1873 Gold Standard, a purpose-driven annual campaign designed to support UAPB student-athletes while engaging alumni, fans, and the broader HBCU and sports community. Named for UAPB’s founding
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By The Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86. Her death was announced Tuesday by the Claudette Colvin Legacy Foundation. Ashley D. Roseboro of the organization confirmed she died
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Winston-Salem, NC — WSSU, the hottest team in HBCU basketball, reached another milestone on Tuesday night. It pushed the winning streak to 14, earned a national ranking, and showed they it win when circumstances force them out of their comfort zone. Tuesday night’s 67–52 win over Virginia State delivered more than another tally in the win
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By Sahil Kapur, Kyle Stewart and Melanie Zanona WASHINGTON — Democrats are wrestling with whether to use a key Jan. 30 deadline to demand constraints on President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed an American woman in Minneapolis. Progressives in the House and Senate are calling on their party to hold firm
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By Maggie Vespa, Nicole Acevedo and Patrick Smith MINNEAPOLIS — In a neighborhood just a couple of blocks from where an ICE officer shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, a confrontation between protesters and federal immigration enforcement broke out Monday afternoon. Dozens of agents and officers wearing tactical gear and masks covering their faces fired pepper balls and tear gas
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