As part of Zuri Murphy’s urban policy class at Hampton University, she was assigned a question: Do Black people deserve reparations. Murphy wrote about how reparations should be paid back to Black land grant colleges. “Reparations should be paid in part to HBCUs, since y’all are already scamming us,” the graduating senior said. “So if
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By Lawrence Hurley The percentage of voters with significant levels of confidence in the Supreme Court has dropped to its lowest point since NBC News began polling on the question in 2000, according to the most recent survey. The percentage of voters with significant levels of confidence in the Supreme Court has dropped to its lowest point
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Since its launch in September 2025, the HBCU Early College Prep School, led by Dr. Asya Johnson, has attracted immense interest as the nation’s first high school of its kind. A testament to its appeal, the school received over 1,000 applications for only 100 spots in its inaugural class. The school’s core mission is to
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By Bridget Bowman GOP Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith will face off against Democrat Scott Colom in November in Mississippi, with NBC News projecting that both have won their respective primaries on Tuesday. It will be a difficult race for Colom, a district attorney. A Democrat has not won a Senate race in Mississippi since 1982 and President
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Although Black History Month has passed, the relevance of HBCUs is ever-present. In the past six years, we’ve seen a rise in the spotlight on HBCUs, with several notable alumni ascending to high heights in various fields. We’ve seen NFL players, such as Michael Vick, DeSean Jackson, and Deion Sanders, take on the challenge of building
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By Patrick Smith, Selina Guevara and Marlene Lenthang Hours after deadly storms ripped through the Midwest, causing extensive damage in Illinois and Indiana, a severe weather risk took hold over the Ohio Valley and the mid-Atlantic and across the northern Gulf Coast on Wednesday. “A few tornadoes will be possible across these areas, along with damaging wind gusts. A
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By Laura Jarrett and Abigail Brooks BROKEN ARROW, Okla. — Billy Hursh couldn’t believe what he was hearing from his insurance company. After a hailstorm battered his roof in October 2023, two different contractors told him he needed a full roof replacement, but his insurance company, State Farm, told him the roof was in “fair” condition. That dispute
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By Dan De Luce, Daniel Arkin, Gordon Lubold, Monica Alba and Courtney Kube WASHINGTON – U.S. officials say relentless American and Israeli aerial attacks have crippled Iran’s air defenses, navy and missile arsenal. But the regime in Tehran has so far held on to power, and it effectively shut down a crucial choke point for the world’s oil supplies. As the
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By Corky Siemaszko Facing eviction, mounting bills, and with no paycheck in sight, a desperate Transportation Security Administration worker based at an airport in upstate New York sent an SOS to the two senators who represent his state. “I basically asked them for help,” Anthony Riley, a 58-year-old married father of three, told NBC News on
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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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