Today’s featured HBCU is Livingstone College! It was originally founded in 1879 in Concord, NC and relocated to a 40 acre farm in Salisbury, NC in 1882. Today it occupies a beautiful 272 acres in Salisbury, North Carolina. It has 16 buildings listed with the National Register of Historic Places known as The Livingstone College
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By Gordon Lubold, Courtney Kube, Jonathan Allen and Julia Ainsley Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s relationship with U.S. Coast Guard officials has become strained throughout her first year leading the department, according to two U.S. officials, a Coast Guard official and a former Coast Guard official. The tensions between Noem and the only branch of the U.S. military overseen by
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A basketball brawl between two HBCU women’s basketball teams leads to fines and suspensions. The Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) has officially issued a series of disciplinary actions following a altercation Mississippi Valley State University and Alabama State University. The league’s announcement serves as a firm reminder of the standards expected within HBCU athletics. Both programs
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Morris Brown College has received $810,000 to help improve safety on campus, school leaders said on Wednesday. Most of it is from a $700,000 grant sponsored by Congresswoman Nikema Williams, who is a member of the Congressional Bipartisan HBCU Caucus. Another $60,000 comes from the Sixth Episcopal District of the AME Church, and the final
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Harris-Stowe State University in St. Louis, Missouri, recently broke ground on a new $62 million building that will serve as a hub for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education and research at the HBCU, according to a report from St. Louis Public Radio. The new center will be a major upgrade from the HBCU’s current STEM building,
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By Char Adams The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the longtime civil rights activist, Baptist minister and two-time presidential candidate, died Tuesday, his family said. He was 84. “Our father was a servant leader — not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world,” the Jackson family said in a
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*Culture, legacy, and representation took center stage as Hollywood gathered for 25 Years of Love & Basketball: A Cultural Tribute + Conversation at the elegant The Maybourne Beverly Hills. The afternoon celebration marked the 25th anniversary of Love & Basketball and simultaneously launched the 2026 season of the HBCU First LOOK Film Festival during NBA All-Star Week. The event honored
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By Claretta Bellamy A federal judge Monday ruled that the Trump administration wrongly removed slavery memorial panels that were placed at a historical Philadelphia site in 2002. The decision came after the Black activists who pushed the city to place the panels again organized in support of their presence last month. The National Park Service removed
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By Jane C. Timm More than 73,000 North Carolinians will be given more time to show identifying documentation to election officials to remain on the state’s voter rolls following a settlement between the national parties and the state’s election board. The settlement, which lays out the ways in which the state will collect the required proof
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