By Ben Kamisar, Jane C. Timm and Bridget Bowman President Donald Trump’s effort to defeat Republicans who have opposed key priorities turns Tuesday to Indiana’s state Senate primaries, in which he and his allies are trying to unseat seven GOP state senators who voted last year against redrawing the state’s congressional map. Those races are the highest-profile primaries in a slate of
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Morehouse College has tapped Chris Paul to deliver the keynote address at its 142nd Commencement on May 17, putting an HBCU graduate at the lectern in front of the Class of 2026. Paul is believed to be the first recently active or retired NBA player to deliver the Morehouse commencement keynote. Bill Russell, posthumously in 2023, received
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Missouri State Representative LaKeySha Bosley recently sponsored a new bill that would increase state funding to Missouri’s two historically Black universities, according to a report from the Columbia Missourian. If passed, House Bill 3416 would create the “Strengthening HBCUs Fund,” which would take 1 percent (totaling some $3.3 million) from the state’s excursion gambling proceeds and
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By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday, in granting an unusual request made by Louisiana Republicans, allowed last week’s major voting rights ruling to go into effect immediately. The decision, which prompted an angry written exchange between liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and conservative Justice Samuel Alito, means the state doesn’t have to wait the usual 32
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Wrigley Field has stood for 112 years in Chicago. The historic ballpark was where Babe Ruth called his shot in 1932 and Jackie Robinson took the field there as a Brooklyn Dodger. On Saturday night, the Friendly Confines of Wrigley Field hosted two HBCUs for the first time in the stadium’s history. The inaugural Chicago HBCU Baseball
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Retired NBA star John Wall is returning to basketball in the nation’s capital. Wall, the face of the Washington Wizards during a nine-year stint, is the new president of basketball operations at Howard University, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania. Howard, a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) and a member of the MEAC, finished 24-11 last season. The Bison won
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An HBCU alumna led a group of state attorneys general in winning a huge lawsuit against the event ticket company, Ticketmaster. New York Attorney General Letitia James led a coalition of state attorneys general in an antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation Entertainment and its ticketing subsidiary Ticketmaster, arguing that the companies had built monopoly power over the ticketing industry.
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By Daniella Silva and Selina Guevara An Illinois commission tasked with investigating the Trump administration’s mass deportation operation in the state last year said it had identified multiple incidents in which federal agents should be investigated for misconduct and potential criminal charges. Members of the Illinois Accountability Commission, an independent board of nine members that includes a former
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By Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle Aruna Weerasooriya, professor of Plant Sciences, talks in a greenhouse at Prairie View A&M University in Prairie View, Wednesday, March 26, 2025. Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle Prairie View A&M University and Texas Southern University are on a mission to elevate their national research profiles, and a new consortium of historically Black colleges and universities
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Florida A&M University’s spring commencement delivered more than degrees this weekend. It also delivered a major investment in the future. Omar Goff, a FAMU alumnus and keynote speaker, donated $100,000 of his personal funds Saturday to support students at his alma mater. His gift immediately turned into something bigger. Two additional leaders matched his contribution, creating a
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