Langston Lincoln Missouri produced the biggest shock of the HBCU football season so far. Almost nobody saw it coming. Langston went into Jefferson City as a massive underdog. It left with a 19-14 win, snapping the only perfect prediction streak left on the board. Langston Lincoln Missouri: A Number Nobody Trusted Still, the predictive numbers
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Following a dominant 66-0 win over Virginia State on Saturday, South Carolina State was the unanimous No. 1 selection in the latest Black College Football Division I FCS poll, receiving all 26 first-place votes and 520 total points. Delaware State (No. 5), North Carolina Central (No. 7) and Morgan State (No. 10) also landed in
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Morgan State University’s Magnificent Marching Machine joined the cast of “Hamilton” for an emotional 9/11 tribute before a national NFL audience. The brightest stage of the NFL’s opening weekend belonged to an HBCU band. Morgan State University’s Magnificent Marching Machine transformed halftime of the New York Giants’ Sunday Night Football matchup against the Dallas Cowboys into a Broadway-sized
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UNCF has announced a $12 million gift from the James and Judith K. Dimon Foundation to strengthen HBCU endowments and expand pathways in health care and education. Jarvis Christian University will receive $1 million of that gift. The Hawkins campus is the only college in Wood County. University officials said the gift will never be
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Savannah State University hosted the Big HBCU Battle of the Bands on Sunday, bringing nine marching bands from across the South to Savannah for a historic competition. The event featured music, competition and school pride, with bands performing elaborate field shows for fans who filled the stands. Drummers with Mississippi Valley State University perform during
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The HBCU House launch is official. HBCU Buzz just gave Black college alumni a new home base for the moments that matter most. It didn’t start small, either. Founded by HBCU Buzz CEO Luke Lawal Jr., HBCU House is a culture-forward events platform. It’s built to bring alumni, executives, creators, and brand partners together wherever HBCU influence
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By Adrian Florido As a child in the 1960s, Allie Zemtseff saw how her mother, a Black woman, was turned away by landlords while apartment hunting in white neighborhoods. So she was incredulous when the Trump administration this summer accused the city of racial discrimination because of a program it created to compensate Black residents for past housing
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When the leaky roof of her crumbling New Orleans high school left rain-drenched students huddled in moldy classrooms, Alaina Zelaya helped rally her community to demand improvements to school facilities. Now a junior at Tuskegee University in Alabama, Zelaya is channeling that same determination to get out the vote on her campus. “In class, I’d
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Benedict College’s ABET electrical engineering accreditation makes it the first HBCU in South Carolina to hold this distinction, and the timing couldn’t be better for a school riding real enrollment momentum. The Columbia-based HBCU announced the milestone Sept. 3, putting it among just four institutions statewide with ABET accreditation in any engineering discipline. President Dr.
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By Lawrence Hurley and Jane C. Timm WASHINGTON — Casting a decisive blow against President Donald Trump’s hopes of exercising federal control over the midterm elections, the Supreme Court on Monday prevented a U.S. Postal Service regulation concerning mail-in ballots from going into effect. The court in a brief order rejected an emergency application the Trump administration filed seeking to block a lower court
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