Written By Lexx Thornton The New Orleans Saints have announced a new official collaboration with a local, Black-owned streetwear label, marking a significant move to deepen the team’s connection to the city’s vibrant cultural and entrepreneurial community. While the partnership has been hinted at through early collection drops, the formal announcement cements a powerful alignment
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The Compassion-Centered Co-Governance Pitch Competition invites students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities across the country to tackle the complex issues behind urban development. Winners receive $10,000, with registration closing on November 15. Helping the participants develop their solutions in historically under resourced communities will be faculty mentors, including Winston-Salem State University professor and Spatial Justice Studio founder Russell Smith. He spoke
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For some time, MacKenzie Scott has been hard at work turning her multibillion-dollar Amazon fortune into one of the most aggressive philanthropic runs in modern history. Mainly through her Yield Giving outlet, she distributed more than $19 billion to over 2,000 organizations, largely in the form of unrestricted grants that let recipients decide how to use the money. Higher
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By The Associated Press WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to end its monthslong deployment of National Guard troops to help police the nation’s capital. U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb concluded that President Donald Trump’s military takeover in Washington, D.C., illegally intrudes on local officials’ authority to direct law enforcement in
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By Khari Jones, Jr. As the morning sun warms the courtyards of community colleges across California, a fleet of representatives from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) embarks on a two-week journey with one shared mission — to open doors. Now in its 10th year, the California Community Colleges to Historically Black Colleges and Universities
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By The Howard University Newsroom Staff Howard University’s third annual Hip Hop Studies Conference is set to take place Nov. 14-16, and this year’s theme — “Respect the Technique: Hip-Hop & Technology” — dives into how hip-hop continues to push boundaries through innovation, sound, and digital creativity. The weekend will bring together artists, scholars, and innovators for
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Dr. Martin Lemelle Jr., the 11th president of Grambling State University (GSU), represents something remarkable in higher education leadership. At one of the youngest ages to hold such a position at an HBCU, he’s blazing new trails while honoring deep roots. The third-generation Grambling graduate has turned fiscal challenges into opportunities, improving the university’s financial
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Written By Lexx Thornton Johns Hopkins University (JHU) has unveiled a significant expansion of its financial aid policy, establishing a tuition-free undergraduate education for students from families earning up to $200,000 annually. The sweeping change, which applies to undergraduates at JHU’s Homewood campus, is set to go into effect for current eligible students in the
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Written By Lexx Thornton South Carolina State University is poised to train the next generation of commercial motor vehicle (CMV) professionals with the help of nearly $2 million in federal funding. University officials cut the ribbon on its SMART (Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation) Virtual Reality Lab following a ceremony on Wednesday morning at the
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Written By Lexx Thornton Microsoft has inaugurated a new class of hyperscale infrastructure with the launch of its second Fairwater AI datacenter in Atlanta. This facility is not a conventional, isolated server farm; it is a critical component in a dedicated, high-speed network designed to function as an AI Superfactory. This revolutionary, distributed architecture is
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