South Carolina State University is launching a new $41 million fundraising campaign on Wednesday, amid recent controversies at the Orangeburg campus. SC State, the state’s only publicly funded, four-year historically Black college, said the campaign is “designed to transform the student experience
By Megan Lebowitz Energy Secretary Chris Wright told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” on Sunday that the Trump administration is “open to all ideas” to lower the cost of gas, including suspending the federal gas tax. Gas prices have been soaring, hitting a national
By Freddie Clayton, Dan De Luce, Peter Nicholas and Alexandra Marquez President Donald Trump rejected Iran’s response to a U.S. proposal to bring an end to the war in the Middle East, calling the message “totally unacceptable” on Truth Social. “I have just read the response from Iran’s so-called ‘Representatives,’”
By William J. Ford Facing an $18 million budget deficit for next fiscal year, Bowie State University, Maryland’s oldest historically Black university, said it will cut 79 positions from its workforce. According to a message from Bowie State University President Aminta Breaux, the university
Courtesy of Howard University Arsene Frederic Jr., a 2026 graduating doctoral student in Howard University’s School of Education, is working to address legislative barriers to college affordability for HBCU students with his qualitative study. Frederic recently defended his dissertation, “Policy Advocacy, Institutional
Texas Southern University today joined fellow leading Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Washington, D.C., for the official launch of the Association of HBCU Research Institutions (AHRI), a transformative national collaboration designed to expand research capacity, strengthen institutional competitiveness, and elevate the
Florida A&M University (FAMU) will host a first-of-its-kind HBCU Student Success Summit led by an institution on April 17, convening higher education leaders from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to share practical strategies that strengthen student persistence, engagement, and academic achievement.
An audience watches the conclusion of the 37th Honda Campus All-Star Challenge, which was held at Torrance, CA on April 13th, 2026. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer) More than 200 college students from across the country came to Torrance earlier this
The Saint Augustine’s University bankruptcy filing has placed one of the nation’s oldest HBCUs at the center of a difficult conversation about money, accreditation, student support, and the future of historic Black institutions. The Raleigh, North Carolina university announced that its Board
By Jane C. Timm Tennessee’s Republican-led Legislature passed a new congressional map dividing up the state’s lone majority-Black district, swiftly responding to the U.S. Supreme Court’s major redistricting ruling last week. The redrawn district lines, which Gov. Bill Lee signed into law, put Republicans in
