By Char Adams A group of Black leaders and locals marched through Columbus, Ohio, in a unity rally Sunday, one day after neo-Nazis walked through the same streets carrying Nazi flags and chanting racial slurs and white nationalist slogans. The Rev. Derrick Holmes, senior pastor
By Candace McDuffie As President-elect Donald Trump continues to handpick members of his Cabinet, it appears as though the Black conservatives who backed him at mind-boggling levels are nowhere to be found. Here are the ones that got noticeably left in the dust. After
By Kyra Alessandrini A coach and 36 players were suspended after a brawl erupted on the football field following a Friday game between Howard University and North Carolina Central University. According to ABC11, NCCU had 19 players and an assistant coach suspended, while Howard had 17 players suspended. No
By Ashley Brown The Tidewater Education Consortium, which includes Norfolk State University, has reached a significant milestone in its mission to transform teacher education in Virginia. The U.S. Department of Education has awarded TEC approximately $9 million through the Teacher Quality Partnership.
Courtesy of Jackson State Athletics The latest NCAA Graduation Success Rate (GSR) Report was released on Wednesday by the NCAA, and Jackson State ranks among the best in the nation and HBCUs with an overall department GSR of 87 percent. Four teams
By Alexander Alter Percival Everett won the National Book Award for fiction on Wednesday for his novel “James,” a propulsive and slyly funny retelling of Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the perspective of Huck’s companion, an enslaved man named James.
By Emmanuel Freeman Tennessee State University’s Future Tiger Walk on Nov. 2 was a huge success, attracting nearly 200 high school juniors and seniors, along with their families. The recruitment event was specifically designed for students who cannot attend weekday campus tours,
Division II HBCU football programs have made a resounding statement in the realm of NCAA football attendance, with several programs leading the nation in drawing fans to their stadiums. According to the latest NCAA statistics, six HBCUs—Tuskegee, Fort Valley State, Albany State, Winston-Salem
By Jennifer Scholtes The Biden administration on Monday sent Congress a roughly $100 billion emergency funding request to rebuild communities hit by hurricanes Helene and Milton, along with a slew of other disasters nationwide. Top lawmakers plan to spend the next few
By Cedric Mobley Howard University today activated “The Yard at Afrotech U: Celebrating HBCU Culture, Alumni, and Tech Contributions” at the Afrotech Conference in the George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, Texas. In partnership with Blavity/Afrotech, Howard is helping to curate novel programming
