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TSU Advances to Honda Campus All-Star National Finals

By Kelli Sharpe Tennessee State University is heading to the Honda Campus All-Star Challenge National Championship Tournament. TSU earned the bid after its second place finish at the qualifying round held at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. The team placed second in the tournament defeating Florida A&M, Spelman, and Voorhees College. The team defeated Morehouse College in the playoffs and lost a very tough game to Tuskegee University. HCASC is a national quiz competition sponsored by American Honda for HBCUs. For more information see www.hcasc.com The members of the team are: Captain Cameron Malone, Junior, Oak Ridge TN, Electrical Engineering. Tyler Vazquez, Sophomore,

Soledad O’Brien Highlights True Legacy of Rosa Parks at FAMU

By Andrew Skerritt Awarding-winning journalist Soledad O’Brien inspired an enthusiastic Lee Hall Auditorium audience Thursday, February 9, as she discussed the documentary, “The Rebellious Life of Rosa Parks.” Speaking in conversation with Valencia Matthews, Ph.D., dean of the Florida A&M University College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, O’Brien explained how her role as executive producer of the one-hour-and-36-minute film allowed her to see the mother of the civil rights movement in new and fascinating ways. She learned that much of Parks’ story has been sanitized and watered down. “There was not a thing accidental about Rosa Parks. The story

BGE Awards $3M to Support STEM Scholars at Maryland HBCUs

By David Thompson BGE announced the continuation of partnerships with Bowie State University, Coppin State University and Morgan State University to award scholarships to full-time STEM majors from Maryland. Each school will receive a total of $1 million in grant funding over four years (2023-2026) from the BGE Scholars program. The company made the announcement yesterday at the Banneker Douglas Museum in Annapolis. The funding will provide an annual commitment at each school of $10,000 scholarships to 15 students pursuing degrees in STEM disciplines (for a total of $150,000); $50,000 to fund persistence grants, available to any student at the

Tuskegee Hosts Arts-Focused Social Work Conference in March

By Brittney Dabney The Department of Social Work at Tuskegee University will observe the month of March as National Social Work Month and will host its third annual Social Work Conference, titled “Social Work Break Barriers: Using the Arts for Trauma-Informed Care of Families and Practitioners.” This year’s virtual conference will welcome students and faculty to participate in a full slate of events, including a preconference show of the Triggered Project: Triggered Life is a multi-sensory, multimedia, post-traumatic story. Triggered Life follows a day in the life of two such men, Ishmael and Keith. As these men relive their stories of abusive childhoods, they

Howard Honors 6 Alumni for Distinguished Achievements in 2023

By Brittany Bailer Howard University has selected the 2023 recipients for the Alumni Award for Distinguished Postgraduate Achievement: Globally recognized artist Bisa Butler, surgeon Edward E. Cornwell, M.D., founder of Centennial One Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA, co-host of CBS Saturday Morning Michelle Miller, former program director of the James Webb Telescope Gregory L. Robinson, MBA, and former Chair in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Howard University, Lewis Thigpen, PhD. The awards will be presented during Charter Day 2023. Since 1943, Howard University has honored those among its ranks who embody its values as exemplars of excellence in truth and service. The Alumni Award for Distinguished Postgraduate

Clark Atlanta Relaunches DuBois Public Policy Center

Courtesy of Clark Atlanta University Clark Atlanta University will hold a press briefing announcing the relaunch and renaming of the Southern Center for Studies in Public Policy to the W.E.B. DuBois Southern Center for Studies in Public Policy on its campus Wednesday, February 22, 2023, at 2:00 p.m. in the Thomas W. Cole Exhibition Hall. George T. French Jr., Ph.D., president of Clark Atlanta University, has renamed the Southern Center for Studies in Public Policy after W.E.B. DuBois and has placed it in the Department of Political Science. “Dr. DuBois was an eminent scholar who spent much of his career

White Student Sues Howard Law School for Race Bias

By Claretta Bellamy A white student who was expelled from Howard University’s law school is suing the historically Black university in Washington, D.C., alleging race discrimination and creating a hostile environment. Plaintiff Michael Ray Newman, who attended the Howard University School of Law in fall 2020 after having received a $26,250 annual scholarship, was expelled about two years later in September. The lawsuit, which Newman’s attorney filed Feb. 16 in Superior Court of the District of Columbia, says he suffered “emotional, mental and economic harm” and seeks more than $2 million in damages. The suit is the result of a series of

VMI Alumni Question Bonus for First Black Superintendent

By Nichol Chavez An alumni group of the Virginia Military Institute is publicly questioning why the college’s first Black superintendent was awarded a more “generous” bonus than last year. Retired Army Maj. Gen. Cedric T. Wins has served as superintendent of the public military college since 2020. He first assumed the role in an interim capacity after General J.H. Binford Peay III resigned, following allegations of a racist culture at the school. Wins officially took on the role last year. Spirit of VMI, a political action committee comprising alumni, parents and friends of the school, issued a statement earlier this month questioning why the VMI

Tuskegee Wins Microsoft Grant for AI Cloud Research

By Brittney Dabney Tuskegee University has been awarded $100,000 by the Microsoft Artificial Intelligence Initiative that allows researchers to leverage the technology to develop real-time resource management using reinforcement learning, one of the most discussed techniques in artificial intelligence (AI). Drs. Mohammad Rahman and Fan Wu, faculty members of the Department of Computer Science, College of Business and Information Sciences, alongside Dr. S. Keith Hargrove, provost, are principal investigators for the project entitled, “Dynamic Cloud Resource Management for Cloud-Based Cyber-Physical Systems (CBCPS) with Reinforcement Learning (RL).” “The project will build the faculty and institution research capacity in AI, providing students

Howard Divinity School Merges Faith, Culture, and Justice

By Amber D. Dodd As part of Howard’s legacy of pushing Black scholars forward, its School of Divinity works to marry spiritual and religious teaching together with an immersive experience of scholarship. Dean Yolanda Pierce, PhD, reflected on the importance of the School of Divinity where African American history is intertwined in their curriculum and how it aligns with the University’s ongoing record of being Black history personified. “Like the rest of Howard University, [the School of Divinity] is committed to developing scholars and professionals who lead change, help to solve the world’s problems, and embody truth and service in

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