There’s a new number one team in this week’s Division II HBCU Black College Football Poll after a sequence of events that started on Thursday night. Kentucky State is your new No. 1 team after Benedict fell as the last undefeated Division
BY Mary Clare Jalonick, Joey Cappelletti, Eddie Pells The Senate passed a sweeping bipartisan bill on Monday that would regulate college sports, an attempt to end “chaos” in an industry that has been upended by skyrocketing athlete payments and near-unrestricted transfers between
Big Tex overlooked Prairie View A&M holding off Grambling State for a 21-14 victory Saturday night at the State Fair Classic in the Cotton Bowl. If they win this classic again, the committee may consider erecting a statue of a Black Panther
The “Battle of the Real HU” college football game between Hampton University and Howard University is set for Saturday, Oct. 3 at Audi Field in Washington, D.C., with kickoff set for 3 p.m. ET. Formerly known as the “Truth and Service Classic,”
North Carolina A&T delivered an upset Saturday, defeating a nationally ranked team to secure its first victory of the 2026 season. North Carolina A&T knocked off Rhode Island 22-18 at Truist Stadium in Greensboro, ending an 0-4 start with a significant CAA
By Janelle R. Baker, Ph.D. Every fall, small college football programs, including HBCU programs, sign contracts to get blown out by the sport’s biggest budgets, and everyone calls it smart business. Guaranteed money, what fans and coaches call “money games,” keeps HBCU
Six-time NBA champion Michael Jordan made a huge investment in HBCU life in Atlanta. Jordan and the Jordan Brand supported an initiative that birthed the Morehouse Multimedia Center. The center opened on Wednesday, September 23. Jordan helped open the center by committing
Students attending HBCUs today rely on comprehensive campus resources to stay enrolled. A new coaching framework provides insight into boosting enrollment, persistence and completion. One-on-one coaching helped stopped-out adult learners return to an HBCU at more than two times the national average and
The 2026 HBCU football season is loaded with returning production across the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) and Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC). Alabama A&M will face Howard on Saturday at the MEAC/SWAC Challenge in Atlanta to kick off the Black college football season.
The NCAA has issued a four-year show-cause order against former North Carolina A&T assistant men’s basketball coach Patrick Herron after determining that he violated sports betting rules while working for the university. According to a negotiated resolution released Tuesday, Herron placed at