Ten award-winning films by students and recent graduates of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) will premiere on Jan. 27 as part of the inaugural HBCU Week NOW Student Film Festival. The winning shorts will stream on the HBCU Week NOW YouTube channel. They were selected from a pool of 36 submissions from across the
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When Latriece Watkins was named President and CEO of Sam’s Club, the announcement moved quickly across the business world. A Spelman College alum taking the helm of one of the most powerful membership-based retailers in the country is notable, but the real significance of this moment lies in what came before it. Watkins’ rise is not the result of a
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David Kwabena Wilson, Ed.D., is president of Morgan State University—Maryland’s Preeminent Public Urban Research University. Since 2010, his tenure as a university administrator has not only been transformative, but he has emerged as a leader among college presidents, as well as an advocate for HBCUs and the role they play in serving the needs of their community, state, and
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U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock led a public ceremony on Capitol Hill to honor iconic gospel singer Richard Smallwood, who died in late December. Warnock honored the legendary artist as he stood alongside Senator Tim Scott, the Howard University Gospel Choir, and the Metropolitan Baptist Church Choir, Complex reported. What were the festivities at the celebration for gospel singer Richard Smallwood?
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If you want to see the future of Louisiana, stand in the middle of an HBCU campus between classes: lab goggles in one direction, student-teachers in another, nursing scrubs and hard hats in between. It’s the state’s talent engine at full throttle, training the doctors who will staff our hospitals, the engineers who will strengthen
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Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., has reached a historic milestone with the chartering of its first chapter in Ghana, officially expanding the organization’s presence to the African continent. The landmark moment reflects the sorority’s enduring commitment to service, leadership, and global sisterhood, while strengthening cultural and historical ties between its members and the African diaspora. As the oldest
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Tuskegee University has been awarded a $25,000 HBCU Cares State Agency Talent Pipeline Initiative mini-grant to support a collaborative workforce and internship initiative between the Department of Social Work (BSW and DL MSW) housed in the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) and the Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences housed in the College of
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By Jonathan Allen President Donald Trump said Tuesday that federal agents “make mistakes sometimes” in enforcing his immigration crackdown, an acknowledgment that comes after weeks of violent confrontations — including the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good — in the streets of Minneapolis. “ICE is going to be too rough with somebody, or, you know, they’re
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By Austin Thompson On Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, much of the national conversation rightly reflects on values such as justice, equality and dignity. Less often do we ask a harder question than King himself increasingly emphasized toward the end of his life: Are our institutions actually capable of delivering those values in practice?
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By Elyse Perlmutter-Gumbiner and Dennis Romero Air Force One returned to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on Tuesday night after the crew identified “a minor electrical issue” after takeoff, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said. President Donald Trump was seen boarding a new, smaller aircraft after landing. It will take the designation Air Force One, according to protocol noted by the Air Force.
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