By Sholnn Z. Freeman Howard University will feature “Breathing While Black: A Town Hall and Screening on Environmental Justice” as part of its Earth Day activities. Attendees will be treated to a special screening of the new environmental justice documentary, “Underwater Projects.” The town hall
By Jane Nam As the class of 2024 enters the workforce, college students are speaking out about what they want and expect in a job. BestColleges surveyed 1,000 current undergraduate and graduate students, and more than 3 in 4 (76%) say work-life
By Chauncey Alcorn Hundreds of Atlanta University Center students cheered with excitement when Vice President Kamala Harris stepped on stage inside the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College in September. Seeing the Howard University graduate and first Black woman to
By Brooke Brinson Two Howard University students – Jada Ingleton and Jasper Smith – have been named as fellows of the 2024 HBCU Media Collective, a program led by Dow Jones and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Ingleton and Smith are joining six other HBCU students
By Kyra Alessandrini Lincoln University announced that Bryan Stevenson, the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, will be the keynote speaker at the HBCU’s 2024 Commencement Ceremony. This year will mark the institution’s 165th Commencement Ceremony. The event will take
By Jessica Washington It seemed like things couldn’t get any more shocking after Tennessee Republicans kicked two Black State Representatives out of the State Legislature last year. But the latest move affecting Tennessee’s only publicly-funded, Historically Black University still managed to send shock
By Quintessa Williams The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia (USG) voted Tuesday to approve tuition rates for the 2024-25 academic year at USG’s 26 public colleges and universities. Systemwide, in-state undergraduate tuition will increase by 2.5%, and out-of-state tuition will
By Andrew Skerritt Florida A&M University (FAMU) hosted a three-day Annual Technical Meeting of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) along with the Minority Serving Institution Partnership (MSIPP) and Tribal Education Partnership Program (TEPP). Themed, “Empowering the Future Workforce,” the meeting was
Courtesy of University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) nursing program will receive a $15 million investment to construct a new academic building as part of a major legislative package championed by U.S. Senator John
By Kelsea Johnson Last year was filled with organizations—from multinational corporations to small businesses—making Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) commitments after growing calls for racial justice focused not just on our systems of government, but our socioeconomic systems as well. In a
