By Corky Siemaszko Ingrid Ciprián-Matthews, who has been president of CBS News since August, announced her resignation Wednesday morning. Ciprián-Matthews gave notice just days after the network’s parent company, Paramount, agreed to merge with the production company Skydance Media. In an emailed memo to staffers,
By William J. Ford The Harford County Board of Education voted unanimously early Tuesday to restore an Advanced Placement course on African American studies, just weeks after canceling the class over concerns it lacked “positive narratives” and perpetuated “a narrative of victimhood.”
By Lynn Washington Financial benefits from the $200 million boost expected for the economy of Milwaukee from the Republican Party’s presidential nominating convention are bypassing Black-owned businesses in Wisconsin’s largest city, alleges leadership with the Black chamber there. They argue Black businesses
By Bob Moser For an industry that employs four million Americans and attempts to educate 15 million more, higher education is, strangely, routinely ignored in presidential elections. Every four years, higher ed types wonder if this will turn out to be the
Vice President Kamala Harris released a statement on the Harris and Biden administration investment in HBCUs. Harris is a graduate of Howard University located in Washington DC as the graduating class of 1986. The statement goes as follows: As a proud graduate
Courtesy of Duke University Schools and Libraries in the United States experienced a significant spike in book bans during the 2021-2022 academic year. According to a new study from scholars at Duke University, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and the University of Colorado,
By Brittany Bailer On July 10, almost a decade after Michael Brown’s murder at the hands of Ferguson police, the Brown family will appear before the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR) for a first-of-its-kind hearing on Brown’s case. Featuring testimony from
Courtesy of Morehouse College Atlanta has become a bustling tech hub, with several corporate innovation centers, tech incubators and accelerators, and hundreds of startups. The metro area also has some of the best computer science and information technology programs in the country,
When Tamika Thomas went on a field trip to Cheyney University as an elementary student, she left the campus knowing where she wanted to go for college. Thomas, who graduated from Cheyney in 1994, is currently the university’s psychology professor. “I went
Courtesy of Charles R. Drew University Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science (CDU), a historically Black medical school in California, has recently established a new partnership with City of Hope, one of the largest cancer research and treatment organizations in
