By Selena Simmons-Duffin As many as 5 million people who buy health insurance on the Affordable Care Act marketplaces may drop their coverage this year, according to a new analysis from KFF, the nonpartisan health research organization. That’s many more than the initial enrollment statistics indicated. About one million fewer people signed up for a plan this year compared
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By Ryan J. Reilly, Gary Grumbach and Megan Lebowitz The Justice Department announced Monday that it was establishing a $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” after President Donald Trump moved to dismiss a $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over his leaked tax returns. Justice Department officials announced that Trump and his co-plaintiffs would drop their IRS lawsuit, as well as other claims
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By Charles Hallman Historic Wrigley Field, built in 1914 and renamed from Cubs Park in 1926, is the second-oldest active Major League Baseball stadium, located on the city’s North Side. Two weekends ago, Wrigley became the first-ever site of an HBCU baseball game when Prairie View A&M and Alabama A&M faced off in the three-game
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By Jamaal Abdul-Alim (EDU) Most public colleges and universities in Illinois are failing to fully comply with a new state law that requires the schools have protocols on what to do if immigration agents show up on campus and to provide information to students on how to respond, a Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ investigation has found. While the law
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The late Charlie Neal was a broadcasting pioneer and a legendary voice for historically Black colleges and universities. Neal passed away on Wednesday at age 80. For fans of HBCUs such as Mississippi Valley State, Jackson State, Alcorn State, and other schools, Neal was the person behind the microphone and in front of the camera for decades. He called
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By Hazel Scott/ASU Excitement filled two Alabama cities recently as the FuelAL HBCU Innovation Internship Program celebrated the graduation of 20 student interns, with two of the graduates representing Alabama State University. The ceremonies, held at Innovation Depot in Birmingham and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville, honored students from Historically Black Colleges and
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For over 17 years, the UNCF Student Leadership Conference (SLC) has served as a vital platform, connecting HBCU students from around the world with Fortune 500 companies dedicated to providing career opportunities. The highly anticipated 17th annual conference is set to convene over 220 undergraduate students from across the US in Washington, DC, for a
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Three HBCU content creation teams earned a prestigious honor this past week thanks to the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. NATAS, in partnership with Coca-Cola, announced three winners of the 2026 Coca-Cola HBCU Sports Production Grant. The program, in its fifth year, totals $40,000 dollars for each winner and “recognizes outstanding student storytellers
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By Edmond W. Davis *The original Great Migration (1910-1970) was one of the most consequential movements in American history. Between approximately 1910 and 1970, millions of African Americans fled the racial violence, voter suppression, economic exploitation, lynching, segregation, and legalized humiliation of the American South in search of opportunity, dignity, safety, and self-determination in cities like Chicago,
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Former HBCU star Diamond Johnson is carrying more than just a hot scoring streak into her new professional women’s basketball journey with the Greensboro Groove. Right now, Johnson stands as the only former HBCU player competing in the Upshot League. Through the first two games of the season, she is already proving that HBCU talent
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