By Anthony Evans The National Black Church Initiative (NBCI), a coalition of 150,000 African American and Latino faith communities comprising 27.7 million members, announced its support for efforts to expand research capacity at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) following Howard University’s anticipated Research-1 (R1) designation. NBCI’s Black Church Clinical Trials website (https://blackchurchclinicaltrials.com) and the American Clinical Health
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An SEC stadium will host one of the storied HBCU non-conference rivalries when Jackson State travels to play Tennessee State at the home stadium of Vanderbilt this fall. Tennessee State and Jackson State will meet in the 2026 John A. Merritt Classic on Saturday, Aug. 29 at 7:30 p.m. The game will be played at
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A Howard University alum just became a UFL champion — and he did it on his home turf. Former Howard University running back Ian Wheeler rushed for 81 yards and a touchdown on 10 carries, earning United Bowl MVP honors as the Louisville Kings upset the defending champion DC Defenders 27-20 at Audi Field in Washington, D.C.
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For the fourth year, the NCAA office of inclusion partnered with each of the historically Black college and university conference offices to select eight student-athletes to attend the Black Student Athlete Summit. This year’s summit was May 20-23 in Eugene, Oregon. “It has been a great relationship to work with the conference commissioners and their
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Miles College psychology major, Trinity Collier, a NSF-funded UJIMA Collective research scholar, earns a coveted spot in the nationally competitive Geospatial Intelligence Program. Hosted by Harris-Stowe State University in St. Louis, Missouri, the highly competitive program brings together students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) across the nation to explore careers in geospatial intelligence, geographic information systems
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By Jamaal Abdul-Alim The private, nonprofit higher education sector in North Carolina has an annual economic impact of $38 billion, according to a new report from the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. Dr. A. Hope Williams, president of North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities, or NCICU, said the finding shows the “continued macroeconomic impact” of private, nonprofit colleges in
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By Reuters BOSTON — A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to reinstall exhibits and signs on topics like slavery and climate change that it had removed from parks and monuments nationwide because they “do not align with its preferred narrative.” U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley in Boston issued a preliminary injunction at the behest of groups representing park conservationists,
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The FAMU underfunding lawsuit is moving forward after a federal appeals court revived claims alleging that the State of Florida has underfunded Florida A&M University by nearly $2 billion over several decades. In a major legal victory for current FAMU students, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled that a lower court acted too
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South Carolina State University is now part of state budget negotiations as the fallout continues from the Pamela Evette commencement controversy as some republicans eye the state’s only public HBCU. The latest development centers on $5 million in proposed funding for a convocation center at SC State. According to WIS, several Republicans in the General Assembly have urged members of the
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By The Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump marked his 80th birthday on Sunday by hailing an initial agreement to end the war in Iran and staging a once unfathomable cage-fighting show on the White House’s storied South Lawn. Trump had been touting the emerging deal for weeks and the continuing conflict threatened to
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