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Chris Paul encourages Morehouse College grads using NBA experience

Retired NBA star Chris Paul addressed Morehouse College’s Class of 2026, pulling from his life and NBA experience to encourage them on their journey. Before the speech started, Paul was conferred an honorary doctorate. He joked about how he wants to be known as “Dr. Chris Paul.” “Henceforth and forevermore, I would like to be referred to as Dr.

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Steep drop in number of people with Affordable Care Act health coverage, analysis finds

By Selena Simmons-Duffin As many as 5 million people who buy health insurance on the Affordable Care Act marketplaces may drop their coverage this year, according to a new analysis from KFF, the nonpartisan health research organization. That’s many more than the initial enrollment statistics indicated. About one million fewer people signed up for a plan this year compared

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DOJ sets up $1.8B ‘anti-weaponization’ fund after Trump drops IRS lawsuit

By Ryan J. Reilly, Gary Grumbach and Megan Lebowitz The Justice Department announced Monday that it was establishing a $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” after President Donald Trump moved to dismiss a $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over his leaked tax returns. Justice Department officials announced that Trump and his co-plaintiffs would drop their IRS lawsuit, as well as other claims

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HBCU baseball makes history at Wrigley Field

By Charles Hallman Historic Wrigley Field, built in 1914 and renamed from Cubs Park in 1926, is the second-oldest active Major League Baseball stadium, located on the city’s North Side. Two weekends ago, Wrigley became the first-ever site of an HBCU baseball game when Prairie View A&M and Alabama A&M faced off in the three-game

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FuelAL HBCU Innovation Internship Celebrates Spring 2026 Graduates, Welcomes New Fall Cohort

By Hazel Scott/ASU Excitement filled two Alabama cities recently as the FuelAL HBCU Innovation Internship Program celebrated the graduation of 20 student interns, with two of the graduates representing Alabama State University. The ceremonies, held at Innovation Depot in Birmingham and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville, honored students from Historically Black Colleges and

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220+ HBCU Students Head to DC for UNCF Leadership Conference

For over 17 years, the UNCF Student Leadership Conference (SLC) has served as a vital platform, connecting HBCU students from around the world with Fortune 500 companies dedicated to providing career opportunities. The highly anticipated 17th annual conference is set to convene over 220 undergraduate students from across the US in Washington, DC, for a

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HBCU sports content creators earn grants and awards from the Sports Emmys

Three HBCU content creation teams earned a prestigious honor this past week thanks to the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. NATAS, in partnership with Coca-Cola, announced three winners of the 2026 Coca-Cola HBCU Sports Production Grant. The program, in its fifth year, totals $40,000 dollars for each winner and “recognizes outstanding student storytellers

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The Great Migration 2.0 – An Exodus of Top Black Student-Athletes to HBCUs

By Edmond W. Davis *The original Great Migration (1910-1970) was one of the most consequential movements in American history. Between approximately 1910 and 1970, millions of African Americans fled the racial violence, voter suppression, economic exploitation, lynching, segregation, and legalized humiliation of the American South in search of opportunity, dignity, safety, and self-determination in cities like Chicago,

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