By Claretta Bellamy One year after a mass shooting at a Tops supermarket devastated a Black community in Buffalo, New York, one victim is being memorialized through the gift of education. Friends and former colleagues spearheaded a scholarship fund for local high school students
By Emmanuel Freeman Oprah! Oprah! Oprah! That was the deafening chant that permeated the 12,000-seat Hale Stadium on Saturday, as Oprah Winfrey, Tennessee State University’s most famous alumnus made her triumphant return to her alma mater as the spring undergraduate commencement speaker.
By Sholnn Z. Freeman The Center for Journalism & Democracy (CJD) at Howard University has won a $4 million award over three years from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to establish innovative academic and applied research programs that will advance health equity journalism at HBCUs. The Center for Journalism
By Kenneth Mullinax An assistant professor of recording technology in the Department of Communications at Alabama State University has been awarded the EBSCO Scholarship for Audiovisual Preservation and Archiving, which is a national fellowship. Professor Michael Bean received the prestigious award that paid for
Courtesy of Bowie State University Over 20 paraprofessionals who work for the Howard County Public Schools (HCPS) have completed their course work at Bowie State University and will become certified teachers after they graduate in two weeks and pass the state’s Praxis
By Monet Heath I always had this idea of what my life would be like: I had a concrete plan of where I would attend school, how long it would take me to graduate, which clubs and organizations I would join and
By Hazel Scott Alabama State University’s Golden Class of 1973 marked its 50th anniversary Thursday, May 4, with a reunion celebration on campus and with the announcement of a historic gift for scholarship support and Strategic Initiatives of the University. The Golden
By Donna Bradby NaTasha Yvette Williams ‘92, who graduated from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University’s Theatre Arts Program in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CAHSS), has been nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured
By Andrew Skerritt The Florida A&M University (FAMU) School of Nursing (SON) opened its new simulation lab for students to gain hands-on clinical experience in a new state-of-the-art facility. The ribbon-cutting occurred during the recent visit to the Tallahassee campus by U.S. Department of Education
Courtesy of Spelman College Spelman College is pleased to announce the retirement of distinguished alumna Rosalind (Roz) Brewer, C’84, from the College’s Board of Trustees after 17 years of service. She joined the Board in 2006, and has served as Board chair
