By Dantee Ramos It’s been a good year for HBCU enrollment. Alabama A&M University is one of the latest HBCUs with record-breaking first-time student enrollment. On Tuesday, Alabama A&M announced that 7,295 students would attend for the fall semester, an increase of 10.3% and the institution’s highest enrollment in the second consecutive year. It also marks the second successive year of its largest
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By Ashley Brown North Carolina Central University School of Law has announced a groundbreaking partnership with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The initiative aims to enhance the university’s capacity to deliver Fair Housing courses while connecting law students with local and national fair housing organizations. The partnership will launch during the university’s
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Vice President Harris and former President Trump spoke to voters at nearly concurrent events Tuesday evening, a week before Election Day. Harris made her closing argument in Washington, D.C., while Trump rallied a crowd in key battleground Pennsylvania. Harris spoke for just over 30 minutes Tuesday evening at the Ellipse, the same spot where Trump spoke to his
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By Amber Dodd For the third consecutive year, Howard University’s School of Business and its Warner Music/Blavatnik Center for Music Business have been recognized in Billboard’s 2024 Top Music Business Schools report. Located in the School of Business, the premiere center continues to prepare the next generation of changemakers by fusing music education, industry networking,
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By Shannon Bond Last week, a video began circulating on X, formerly Twitter, purporting to show a person in Pennsylvania ripping up ballots marked for former President Donald Trump and leaving alone those marked for Vice President Harris. The person curses the former president multiple times and at one point says, “Vote Harris.” The video
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Courtesy of Jackson State University The College of Health Sciences at Jackson State University, a historically Black institution in Mississippi, has recently launched a new initiative to provide students with experiential learning opportunities while addressing health disparities in Mississippi. The Wellness on Wheels mobile medical lab is designed to bring critical health services directly to individuals in
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By Christopher Rhodes A group of students and activists recently demonstrated at Morehouse College to protest Georgia’s restrictive voting laws. The demonstrations, timed to coincide with a high-profile visit from the Kamala Harris campaign, come as Georgians and the rest of the nation will decide the outcome of the presidential election over the next two weeks. Protests against
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By Gabrielle Heyward When alumni of historically Black colleges and universities return to their alma maters to celebrate homecoming over the next few weeks, many will see new faces in charge on the yard. As enrollment numbers have continued to increase at HBCUs nationwide in recent years, multiple schools have faced turnovers in leadership, with top executives
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Simon Bouie told his mother and grandmother he wasn’t going to get in trouble back in 1960. Then the Black Benedict College student sat at a whites-only lunch counter in South Carolina and got himself arrested. Finally on Friday, that arrest and the records of six of his friends were erased as a judge signed an order
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Courtesy of Delaware State University Delaware State University has announced that its Doctor of Education program in Educational Leadership has been accepted as a member of the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate. This distinction represents the highest achievement for doctoral education programs. It also marks a significant milestone for DSU as one of only
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