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Spelman College Endowed Professor Wins Two NAACP Image Awards

Courtesy of Spelman College Spelman College Diana King Endowed Professor Shola Lynch has been awarded Outstanding Documentary (Television) and Outstanding Directing in a Documentary by the NAACP Image Awards for her film “Number One on the Call Sheet.” Released in March 2025 on Apple TV+, the two-part documentary explores the experiences of leading Black actors and actresses in Hollywood. Lynch directed part two of the film, focusing on the actresses. “It is an honor to receive two NAACP Image Awards for “Number One on the Call Sheet” and to be recognized by our community,” said Lynch. “I was grateful for the opportunity to direct

FAMU Community Members Say DEI Policies Impacted Black Studies Degree At HBCU

As Florida A&M University seeks to align its curriculum with state standards, the HBCU has consolidated one major degree program, which has angered community members. The Board of Trustees at FAMU approved a measure to consolidate seven degree programs, including one that merges African American (Black) studies. That move, the Tallahassee Democrat reports, aims to help FAMU meet performance standards required by the state. Naysayers found multiple issues with the degree changes, calling out the measure as a way to appease anti-DEI officials in Florida. The board of trustees unanimously approved the measure during a Feb. 12 on-campus meeting. Students called out the private

Dr. Muhsinah Morris Named to 2026 ASU+GSV HBCU Partnership Advisory Board

Dr. Muhsinah Morris, Director of Morehouse in the Metaverse and Professor of Practice, has been named to the 2026 ASU+GSV HBCU Partnership Advisory Board. This appointment extends Morehouse College’s national footprint in innovation and immersive education and represents a strategic advancement for students, faculty, and alumni positioned at the forefront of AI, immersive learning, and the future of work. Dr. Morris, an award-winning educator and leader in AI and extended reality, now serves alongside nationally recognized leaders committed to expanding opportunity for historically Black colleges and universities. The ASU+GSV Summit is a career-defining experience that brings together the PreK-to-Gray education

UC Berkeley School of Education receives $500K in summer research grant for HBCU students

UC Berkeley’s School of Education was awarded $500,000 from the 2026 UC-HBCU Initiative grant to support a seven-week summer research experience for undergraduate students from Morehouse College and Talladega College. The program will serve 18 fellows over the course of three years. The grant will be run through a partnership between HBCUs and campus’s Center for Research on Expanding Educational Opportunity, or CREEO, and it will be led by campus professors Travis Bristol and Tolani Britton. According to Melika Jalili, the senior programs and operations manager at CREEO, the CREEO-HBCU program has been “intentionally designed” to strengthen students’ pathways to

How Spelman’s Innovation Lab Is Incubating Future Tech Leaders

More than 85 students from Black colleges across the South and east coast descended on Spelman College this weekend for the school’s fourth-annual HBCU Game Jam. Over the three-day event, students attended workshops on game design and development, culminating in a hack-a-thon where student teams spent 24-hours building their own video game. For the first time this year, the Game Jam was hosted in the Arthur M. Blank Innovation Lab in Spelman’s new Mary Schmidt Campbell Center for Innovation & the Arts, where participants have access to all the tech resources needed to create a new game from coding and

HBCU Spotlight: Celebrating legacy, opportunity, and impact at Shorter College

At 604 Locust Street in North Little Rock sits Shorter College, one of Arkansas’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU.) To some, it may look like a small campus, but to those who call it home, it represents something much bigger: a path to possible. “If I had to describe it in one word, I believe I would use the word greatness. It’s here. Greatness is here,” said Dr. Jeffery Norfleet, President of Shorter College. Founded in 1886 by the African Methodist Episcopal Church under Bishop Thomas Marcus Decatur Ward, the school was originally known as Bethel University. It was

Columbia president says student was detained by DHS agents who claimed they were looking for missing child

By Doha Madani, Chloe Atkins, Brittany Kubicko and Phil Helsel A Columbia University student was detained Thursday morning by immigration agents who misrepresented themselves by saying they were looking for a missing child to get access to a residential building, the university’s top administrator said. Elmina Aghayeva, who is from Azerbaijan, was later released, but the school’s acting president, Claire Shipman, and others condemned the agents’ actions in the alleged 6 a.m. incident in an off-campus Columbia building. “This was a frightening and fast-moving situation and utterly unacceptable for our students and staff,” Shipman said in a statement. The Department of Homeland Security said Immigration and

From $1 donations to a $150 million gift: The history of giving at Austin’s only HBCU

 Huston-Tillotson University President Dr. Melva Wallace was sure she heard the wrong number. The Moody Foundation’s Senior Vice President of Grants, Elle Moody, was sitting in her office and had – seconds earlier – told Wallace they were gifting the historically Black university $130 million. “There was just this blank stare on her face for a few minutes,” Moody joked. “I don’t think she could quite comprehend what we were saying.” The donation, which later evolved into a $150 million gift, was not the first the Moody Foundation made to the east Austin school – but it was, by far, the

Morehouse Alumnus Dr. Willie Underwood III Elected President Of American Medical Association

Dr. Willie Underwood III, a urological surgeon and Morehouse alum, will lead the American Medical Association as its incoming president. Underwood became the official President-elect last June during the 2025 AMA meeting in Chicago. There, his fellow medical professionals voted for him to lead the association into its next era. Underwood brings over a quarter-century of experience in medicine, particularly in the surgical field. Underwood has been a pioneering figure in robotic urologic surgery, working innovative medical approaches for 15 years. Prior to this, Dr. Underwood began his journey through higher education at Morehouse College. Upon graduating with a bachelor’s in biology

Morehouse College: $457 Million NSF Project Received To House Landmark Supercomputer At HBCU Campus

Morehouse College announced it has received a prestigious grant from the National Science Foundation as part of a $457 million initiative to build one of the most powerful academic supercomputers in the Southeast. The historic investment in higher education cyberinfrastructure will significantly expand access to advanced computational resources for Morehouse students and faculty, as well as HBCUs nationwide. The Morehouse Center for Broadening Participation in Computing has received an initial $5 million portion of the NSF grant to begin construction on a site that will house the cutting-edge supercomputer, named Horizon. The system is part of the NSF’s Leadership-Class Computing

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