By Sahil Kapur and Brennan Leach ST. LOUIS — Rep. Wesley Bell defeated former Rep. Cori Bush in a Democratic primary rematch, NBC News projects, in the latest chapter of a long-term fight over a deep-blue St. Louis-based district. Bell overwhelmed Bush on the airwaves, fending off her push to make the race a referendum on his support
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Forbes Top HBCUs 2026 is here, and it’s the first ranking the publication has ever built just for historically Black colleges and universities. The list highlights 20 schools total. Forbes split the field into two separate top-10 tables, one for private HBCUs and one for public HBCUs. That structure matters. Private and public schools run
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A renewed examination of private philanthropy found that the average Ivy League university received 178 times more foundation funding than the average historically Black college or university between 2015 and 2019. The HBCU foundation funding gap echoes an earlier funding analysis and comes despite MacKenzie Scott’s HBCU giving in recent years. The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education revisited
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By Alejandro Serrano Fewer than one in 10 Black voters in Texas say they are less likely to vote in November’s midterm elections due to U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s defeat in the Democratic primary, according to a poll released Tuesday that suggests James Talarico could face limited electoral fallout from the racial tensions that have persisted since he secured the
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By Alexandra Marquez Govs. Kevin Stitt, R-Okla., and Wes Moore, D-Md., on Friday blamed partisan primaries for making politics more extreme and called for bringing back “dignity” in politics and government. Asked whether dignity is a quality that could win a presidential election, Stitt told “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker, “I would think so.” They
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Philadelphia will host two HBCU football games on consecutive days this fall. One brings Lincoln University back to the city after a 16-year absence. The other builds upon the 47,266 fans who filled Lincoln Financial Field for Delaware State and Norfolk State last October. Together, the games represent more than an expanded football schedule. Philadelphia is
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Morehouse Spelman $147 million student housing has officially reached financial close. That clears the way for construction on a shared residence hall years in the making. Radnor Property Group and the Madrone Community Development Foundation closed the deal on July 1, 2026. They sold roughly $146.8 million in tax-exempt and taxable bonds through the Development
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Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in California recently unveiled a Health Professions Education Building to house the historically Back medical school’s College of Medicine. The new 60,000-square-foot facility will serve as a learning hub for students across the HBCU. It features adaptive and tech-enabled classrooms, anatomy laboratories. simulation spaces, and collaborative learning
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North Carolina A&T’s GHOE 100 tickets sold out in a matter of minutes Monday morning. The sellout closed the book on one of the fastest ticket rushes in the tradition’s history. It also confirmed that the 100th Greatest Homecoming on Earth will be unlike anything the Aggie community has seen before. Indeed, the demand had
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Xavier University of Louisiana ranks No. 4 among the nation’s top private historically Black colleges and universities in Forbes’ first-ever ranking of HBCUs, released Aug. 2. Forbes separately ranked the nation’s top private and public HBCUs, with Xavier the only Louisiana institution to make either Top 10 list. A key strength highlighted by Forbes is Xavier’s longstanding
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