In a powerful alignment of media, mission and movement, the Allen Media Group free-streaming digital platform and premier destination for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU) sports and culture, HBCU GO and UNCF, the nation’s largest and most effective education organization for underrepresented students, are pleased to announce a groundbreaking strategic partnership designed to elevate the full HBCU experience to
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by Marlena Chertock | March 5, 2026 Rust College, a UNCF-member institution, has won the HBCU Athletic Conference (HBCUAC) Women’s Basketball Championship, renamed last year from the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference (GCAC). Rust defeated Talladega College, another UNCF-member institution, 67-60 in the 2026 Hope Credit Union HBCUAC Championship. The 2026 Lady Bearcats, playing with a rotation of only six players,
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Bowie State University has officially concluded the historic Bowie State BSU Bold campaign, raising more than $128 million to support scholarships, academic innovation, and student success initiatives. The campaign, known as BSU BOLD: The Campaign for Excellence, represents the largest fundraising effort in the university’s history and significantly surpassed its original $50 million goal. The initiative reflects growing philanthropic
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By Molly Hunter, Tavleen Tarrant, Matthew Mulligan, Chantal Da Silva and Shira Pinson Evidence continues to mount that the U.S. was responsible for the deadly school strike in southern Iran that killed scores of children as images taken near the school have emerged showing fragments of American-made missiles. The missile fragments purported by Iranian state media to have struck the school bear the markings
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Howard University has introduced a new Howard national anthem policy that changes how student-athletes participate in pregame ceremonies across all athletic programs. Under the updated protocol, athletes must either stand for the national anthem or remain in the locker room while it plays. The policy follows internal discussions between athletics leadership, coaches, and student-athletes about pregame procedures
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Florida A&M (FAMU) men’s basketball coach Charlie Ward remains one of the most respected figures not just in HBCU but in all of American sports. Ward first built his legacy as a two-sport star at Florida State University. He won the 1993 Heisman Trophy and later played in the NBA. He remains the only Heisman
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The PlantGPT prototype is currently being tested on houseplants while the team continues refining the system’s capabilities. Joy Rutledge and Temple Dees are working at Spelman College’s Arthur M. Blank Innovation Lab to develop an AI program that assesses environmental data from plants into real time care guidance. The project, PlantGPT, connects plant sensors to artificial intelligence software
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By Bridget Bowman Republican Clay Fuller and Democrat Shawn Harris advanced Tuesday from a crowded field to a runoff in the special election to replace former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in Georgia, NBC News projects. Fuller, a district attorney, benefited from President Donald Trump’s endorsement in the solidly GOP district in the northwest corner of the state. Harris,
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What many people may not know is that twenty-five years before he launched his historic 1988 presidential campaign and delivered the “Keep Hope Alive” speech, he was elected as president of the student government association at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T). He also shares this beginning story with Randall Woodfin, mayor
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By Kurt Helin Wilt. Bam. Kobe. That is now the order for the top-scoring games in NBA history as — out of nowhere — Miami’s Bam Adebayo dropped 83 points in Miami’s blowout win over Washington Tuesday night. “Wilt, me and Kobe, sounds crazy,” Adebayo said (via Ira Winderman at the South Florida Sun Sentinel).
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