By Richard Luscombe Three Democratic former presidents led a wealth of tributes to Jesse Jackson, a “titan” of the civil rights movement and “one of America’s greatest patriots” who has died at the age of 84. Joe Biden said history would remember Jackson as “a man of God and of the people”, calling him in a social
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College students and leaders from South Carolina’s historically Black colleges and universities packed the State House on Tuesday for HBCU Day, using the annual event to press lawmakers for more state investment in their campuses. All eight of South Carolina’s HBCUs joined the state’s first Legislative Black Caucus to call attention to what they described
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By Kaia Hubbard Democrats sent a counteroffer on overhauling immigration enforcement to the White House and Republicans on Monday, the latest development in talks over how to fund the Department of Homeland Security. Funding lapsed on Saturday for DHS, which oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection. Democrats vowed to oppose funding
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By Sahil Kapur The SAVE America Act to require proof of citizenship nationwide to register to vote and overhaul voting laws has now topped 50 votes in the Republican-controlled Senate. The bill is supported by President Donald Trump and passed the House last week, meaning the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster rule is the only thing standing in the way of
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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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