Kevin James is again at the center of a fast-moving and increasingly complex leadership saga after new allegations surfaced following his reported reinstatement as president. New Allegations Emerge After Reinstatement Just over a week after being fired, Kevin James has been reinstated as president of Morris Brown College. However, Channel 2 Action News reports it has obtained multiple internal documents
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HBCU baseball will return to Birmingham to honor a Black MLB legend. Starting later this month, the Willie Mays HBCU Baseball Open will showcase the top Black college programs in a tribute to the legendary Hall of Famer. The event, sponsored by Black College Nines, will be held at Rickwood Field, America’s oldest professional ballpark, from Jan.
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U.S. News: What benefits do students get from attending an HBCU that’s also an all-women’s college? Hayes: Spelman occupies a unique position in American higher education. As a liberal arts college that is also an HBCU and a women’s college, we offer an educational experience grounded in academic excellence, cultural understanding and respect for the histories
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By Marc Morial “It’s easy to focus on the methods of civic participation that make news, and hard to imagine the importance of the things we do each day with our own minds and hearts. Who nurtured a child in the kitchen; who was kind to a stranger in line at a grocery store; who
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A historically Black institution that has served underserved communities of Indianapolis, Indiana, for nearly five decades is closing its doors. According to the EDU Ledger, Martin University, which had its accreditation stripped and later restored, will cease operations after a Board of Trustees vote due to what the school deemed “financial challenges.” The move comes days
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New ‘HBCU First Look’ Channel Coming to Tubi in 2026 *Howard University alum Sheila Eldridge has partnered with Tubi to create a game-changing space for HBCU filmmakers. The new streaming channel, called “HBCU First Look,” will debut next month in February on the free Tubi platform. It will feature more than 100 films by students and alumni from historically
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A massive winter storm will begin moving east across much of the country today, bringing with it dangerous cold that is expected to last through the weekend. Heavy snowfall, with nearly a foot in some areas, is likely on the northern side of the system from Oklahoma to Massachusetts, according to the National Weather Service.
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By Kevin Harris and Richard McDaniel There is a dangerous misinformation campaign about Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The false narrative that HBCUs are somehow fragile, dependent on foreign students, or lesser-tier institutions was most recently pushed when Donald Trump suggested HBCUs would go out of business without students from China. Like most of what
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By Robert Mackey Six years after the US justice department launched an immediate criminal investigation of the video-recorded killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, deputy attorney general Todd Blanche confirmed on Sunday that the department is “not investigating” the fatal 7 January shooting of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in the
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Operations at Atlanta’s Morris Brown College are back to normal after officials say a threatening email led to an emergency alert and police presence on campus. On social media on Thursday morning, the Atlanta college posted a message, telling students not to come to campus and to check their email and text messages. In the
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