Howard University alumna and legendary actress Phylicia Rashad has been announced as the commencement speaker at Oakwood University. The commencement will be held at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville, Alabama, on May 8th. Rashad most recently served as the dean of the Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts at Howard University. She returned to her alma mater
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The HBCU All-Star Game weekend brings the top men’s basketball players from Historically Black Colleges and Universities to showcase their talent. But organizers of the event packed weekend want it to be about more than just the game. Leading up to the game the schedule included a Black business marketplace, an HBCU college fair, and
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By Andrew Greif In a stunning rout, UCLA cruised past South Carolina 79-51 to win the program’s first NCAA women’s basketball national championship Sunday. Making its first title game since the NCAA adopted women’s basketball as an official sport in 1982, UCLA looked nothing close to tentative or unsure of itself on such a pressure-packed
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By Denise Chow It’s official: The Artemis II astronauts have arrived in the moon’s cosmic neighborhood. The crew’s Orion capsule entered what’s known as the lunar sphere of influence at around 12:41 a.m. ET Monday, crossing into the region of space where the moon’s gravitational pull is stronger than the pull of Earth’s. “That’s a significant
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Courtesy of Spelman College Each fall, hundreds of young women enter the gates of 350 Spelman Lane with the understanding that Spelman is more than a college — it is preparation for leadership. That understanding shapes how they study, how they lead, and how they prepare. By the time they graduate, they leave not only
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T.I. is making one final statement—and he’s doing it with HBCU culture at the forefront. The Atlanta rap icon recently released the official music video for “Trauma Bond,” a standout track from his upcoming final album Kill The King. The visual prominently features the Tuskegee University Marching Crimson Pipers, bringing a powerful HBCU presence into the spotlight. A Cinematic
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By Jodi Ham HBCU football players keep proving they belong at the highest level. But when draft night comes around, the numbers tell a different story. There’s no shortage of talent coming out of historically Black colleges and universities. That’s been true for decades. But according to reporting from HBCU Sports, that talent isn’t translating into
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The HBCU spirit of the Jaguar is reaching new heights as Southern University graduate Jeremy Plater plays a pivotal role in NASA’s historic Artemis II mission. This mission launched on Wednesday, April 1, represents the first crewed lunar flyby in over 50 years. And this HBCU graduate is at the heart of the hardware. Plater
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Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and Senator Katie Britt (R-AL) recently introduced a new bill to streamline federal funding opportunities for historically Black colleges and universities. If passed, the HBCU Research Capacity Act would establish a federal clearinghouse of all available federal grant opportunities for HBCUs and help them apply for federal funding. The bill would amend Title
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By Daniel Arkin “TODAY” co-anchor Savannah Guthrie is set to return to the flagship NBC morning show Monday, more than two months after her mother disappeared. Guthrie, who has co-anchored “TODAY” since 2012, stepped away from her role in early February after Nancy Guthrie, 84, went missing from her home near Tucson, Arizona. Authorities have described the
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