By Gerren Keith Gaynor After President Donald Trump recently told theGrio his policies are bringing back “Black jobs,” the new jobs report for May shows that while the Black unemployment rate has slightly declined, it remains disproportionately high compared to the national rate and rates of other
The financial landscape for recent college graduates is undergoing a radical transformation, and alumni from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are at the forefront of this shift. For generations, the path to economic stability relied heavily on traditional banking systems, standard retirement accounts, and established financial intermediaries. While these tools remain relevant, a growing
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By Berkeley Lovelace Jr. About 1 in 3 U.S. adults say they’ve made trade-offs to afford health care in the past year, including rationing or skipping medications or borrowing money, according to a poll from West Health-Gallup. A second survey from the group found nearly 1 in 10 adults say they’ve postponed retirement because of health care costs.
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Although Black History Month has passed, the relevance of HBCUs is ever-present. In the past six years, we’ve seen a rise in the spotlight on HBCUs, with several notable alumni ascending to high heights in various fields. We’ve seen NFL players, such as Michael Vick, DeSean Jackson, and Deion Sanders, take on the challenge of building
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They always announce these decisions in the softest possible language. The words are careful, managerial. They use phrases like streamlining, restructuring, reducing fragmentation, and enhancing collaboration just so they can gut Black-centered scholarship without ever having to admit they’re trying to kill it. But what’s really going down is a quiet choreography between compliant academics
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The Century Foundation recently published a new analysis tracking how some southern states fail to properly distribute student financial aid, finding that a high share of state grant dollars go to students from high-income families. According to the Century Foundation’s research, one of the worst states when it comes to effectively distributing financial aid is Mississippi, the
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Opening Remarks Frame HBCUs as Essential, Not Peripheral The formal program began with remarks from Tonjia Hope Navas (Ph.D. ’24), assistant provost for international programs, and Trustee Emerita Marie C. Johns (DHL ’13), the 2025-26 King Endowed Chair holder. They both framed the conversation as timely and necessary, an invitation to think expansively about where higher education
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This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at SUBR chapter and does not reflect the views of Her Campus. Historically Black Colleges and Universities have a significant impact on protecting and influencing Black culture in many different ways. Beyond academics, these institutions have poured into and invested in students’ everyday
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“The Right to Vote vs. The Right to Be Seen as ‘Grown’” I remember being on the edge of 17, eagerly waiting to turn 18, not only to legally be an adult but also to exercise my voting rights, which I was so ecstatic to do. To me, someone who’s been an advocate for a
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We often talk about sustainability in higher education as if it were a race measured in quarters, dashboards, and presidential contracts. But at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), sustainability doesn’t, and can’t, happen on a stopwatch. It’s something that occurs over time, through trust, alignment, and leaders who are given the space to build. If you’ve
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By Marc Morial “It’s easy to focus on the methods of civic participation that make news, and hard to imagine the importance of the things we do each day with our own minds and hearts. Who nurtured a child in the kitchen; who was kind to a stranger in line at a grocery store; who
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