By Natasha Korecki As the Democratic Party wrestles with how much to focus on President Donald Trump on the campaign trail, one Senate candidate is giving a clear answer: “F— Trump.” Juliana Stratton, the state’s lieutenant governor, is running her first TV ad beginning Friday, a spot featuring a series of people, including Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill.,
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Cam Newton is putting his money behind the culture, reinvesting earnings from his short-lived TV run to launch an HBCU-focused “4th & 1” College Tailgate Tour. The former NFL MVP has been talking about this lane for a while. -style platform around HBCU football. He even framed it as the kind of partnership Pat McAfee
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By Jeremy M. Edwards Senior Communications Advisor New research by The Century Foundation highlights a hundred-billion-dollar problem with how state financial aid is distributed: in many states, state financial aid is not effectively directed toward the students who need it most. In fact, state aid lags behind Pell Grants when it comes to effectiveness in reducing college
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By Raquel Coronell Uribe and Ryan J. Reilly A banner featuring a photo of Donald Trump and the words “Make America Safe Again” was hung from the Justice Department’s headquarters in Washington on Thursday in one of the most public signs of the president’s influence over a department that once brought criminal charges against him. The Justice Department has traditionally operated with
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Funeral arrangements have been made for civil rights activist Reverend Jesse Jackson, according to the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. Jackson, who was a protégé of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., passed away on Tuesday, Feb. 17. The Greenville Eight member had been hospitalized in recent months and was under observation for progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). According to the organization, Jackson
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Southern University STEM complex progress hit a major milestone this month as Southern University and A&M College celebrated the placement of the final structural beam on its new $68 million STEM building. The moment signals that the structure is fully framed and the project is moving into its next phase, bringing a long awaited upgrade in
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Stacy A. Frazier smiled as she thought about being 7 years old, sitting beside her mother and watching dancers glide across the stage during Dance Theatre of Harlem performances. Now, years later, that memory recently resurfaced. Frazier, who is president of the NY Chapter of National Alumnae Association of Spelman College, realized she was having
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Longview ISD has removed a barrier for students dreaming of an education at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) by paying all application fees to more than 50 schools. The district partnered with EDU Incorporated, which runs a platform that allows students to apply to many HBCUs simultaneously. Longview ISD pays the $25 application fee
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Matt Hottle, co-founder and partner of Redhawk Advisory, spoke to Hackathon finalists about what it takes to be ready to seek venture capital. (Contributed) “I hope I provided a good idea of how venture capital works,” said Hottle. “It’s important that they recognize when they are reaching a stage where they should become interested in
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By Morgan Howard Jackson State University is contributing personal items from acclaimed Mississippi author Margaret Walker Alexander to a new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture exhibit highlighting the role of historically Black colleges and universities in preserving U.S. history. According to the LEPR Agency, the exhibit, “At the Vanguard: Making and
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