Legendary broadcaster Ralph Cooper of KCOH has been voted as the 2026 inductee into the Houston Baseball Media Wall of Honor, the Houston Astros announced Friday. The Astros will honor Cooper in a pregame ceremony at Daikin Park during the 2027 regular season. Cooper is the first Black media member honored on the wall. In
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There’s a new number one team in this week’s Division II HBCU Black College Football Poll after a sequence of events that started on Thursday night. Kentucky State is your new No. 1 team after Benedict fell as the last undefeated Division II HBCU football team. Benedict lost to Tuskegee on the road, a place
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Texas U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico stepped onto the field of the HBCU football classic between Prairie View A&M University and Grambling State University, drawing a warm reception from Black voters as he campaigns in the final weeks before the midterms. The Democratic nominee, who has been heavily courting Black voters ahead of the Nov.
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Debbie Allen has never been shy about her activism. From partnerships to philanthropy to powerful awareness-raising storytelling in her artistry, the “A Different World” director is continuing that mission in her latest projects, including a partnership with Merck’s “Your Hive of Whole Health” campaign and the highly anticipated reboot of “A Different World” on Netflix.
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By Phenix S Halley After months of attacks from President Donald Trump’s administration over the Smithsonian’s integrity and mission, Lonnie G. Bunch III, the institution’s first Black secretary, is stepping down. Bunch spent much of his career ensuring Black history had a permanent place in the American story. Now, he has announced he’s leaving the Smithsonian at the end of 2026 after
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By Frank Thorp V and Kyla Guilfoil The White House said Friday that it planned to cut $810 million in bipartisan, congressionally approved funding, spurring criticism from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. The executive branch would effectively send the funds back to Congress using so-called pocket rescissions, a rare budgetary tactic that the
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BY Mary Clare Jalonick, Joey Cappelletti, Eddie Pells The Senate passed a sweeping bipartisan bill on Monday that would regulate college sports, an attempt to end “chaos” in an industry that has been upended by skyrocketing athlete payments and near-unrestricted transfers between schools. The overwhelming 77-22 vote to pass the legislation is the strongest effort
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North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University has been named the nation’s No. 1 public historically Black college or university (HBCU) in U.S. News & World Report’s 2027 Best Colleges rankings. Paired with gains across key academic programs and its overall national standing, the recognition marks progress toward N.C. A&T’s ambition to advance as a
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The Education Department’s $174 million HBCU funding boost landed with plenty of applause. It also landed with a calculator attached. Education Secretary Linda McMahon announced the one-time money on Sept. 22 at the White House HBCU Summit. College presidents, administration officials and advocates packed the room. According to the Education Department’s announcement, the new dollars
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By Sahil Kapur and Frank Thorp V WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday rejected a symbolic resolution calling for President Donald Trump to end the U.S. war with Iran, with most Republicans siding with the president despite the war’s unpopularity. Just a handful of Republicans joined Democrats in favor of the resolution: Sens. Rand Paul
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