Morris Brown College has received $810,000 to help improve safety on campus, school leaders said on Wednesday. Most of it is from a $700,000 grant sponsored by Congresswoman Nikema Williams, who is a member of the Congressional Bipartisan HBCU Caucus. Another $60,000 comes from the Sixth Episcopal District of the AME Church, and the final
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Harris-Stowe State University in St. Louis, Missouri, recently broke ground on a new $62 million building that will serve as a hub for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education and research at the HBCU, according to a report from St. Louis Public Radio. The new center will be a major upgrade from the HBCU’s current STEM building,
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By Char Adams The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the longtime civil rights activist, Baptist minister and two-time presidential candidate, died Tuesday, his family said. He was 84. “Our father was a servant leader — not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world,” the Jackson family said in a
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*Culture, legacy, and representation took center stage as Hollywood gathered for 25 Years of Love & Basketball: A Cultural Tribute + Conversation at the elegant The Maybourne Beverly Hills. The afternoon celebration marked the 25th anniversary of Love & Basketball and simultaneously launched the 2026 season of the HBCU First LOOK Film Festival during NBA All-Star Week. The event honored
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By Claretta Bellamy A federal judge Monday ruled that the Trump administration wrongly removed slavery memorial panels that were placed at a historical Philadelphia site in 2002. The decision came after the Black activists who pushed the city to place the panels again organized in support of their presence last month. The National Park Service removed
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By Jane C. Timm More than 73,000 North Carolinians will be given more time to show identifying documentation to election officials to remain on the state’s voter rolls following a settlement between the national parties and the state’s election board. The settlement, which lays out the ways in which the state will collect the required proof
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Coahoma Community College is one of thirteen 2-year HBCUs! Originally it was founded as Coahoma Country Agricultural High School in 1924 for Black people under the “separate but equal” doctrine. In 1949, the Junior College curriculum was added, and it was renamed Coahoma Junior College and Agricultural High School. The school says of that time
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The HBCU Radio Preservation Project preserves and honors the legacy of Black college radio. We’re safeguarding at-risk historical media and gathering oral histories to explore how HBCU radio stations serve their campuses and communities. In recognition of Black History Month, Legacy Listening: HBCU Radio Memories features excerpts from the project’s growing collection of oral history interviews, focusing on WCSU
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The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) has expanded its Project ACCLAIM to help more HBCUs get into asset management. The UNCF announced the news on Feb. 3, as students from Morgan State and Florida A&M University can now enter its talent pipeline for this lucrative industry. Project ACCLAIM, which stands for Accelerating Learning in Asset
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Savannah Guthrie shared a new video on Instagram last night pleading for the person who took her mother to come forward. “It’s been two weeks since our mom was taken, and I just wanted to come on and say that we still have hope and we still believe,” she said. She addressed whoever has her mother or
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