By Brittany Bailer Howard University has selected the 2023 recipients for the Alumni Award for Distinguished Postgraduate Achievement: Globally recognized artist Bisa Butler, surgeon Edward E. Cornwell, M.D., founder of Centennial One Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA, co-host of CBS Saturday Morning Michelle Miller, former program director of
Courtesy of Clark Atlanta University Clark Atlanta University will hold a press briefing announcing the relaunch and renaming of the Southern Center for Studies in Public Policy to the W.E.B. DuBois Southern Center for Studies in Public Policy on its campus Wednesday,
By Jessica Washington Let’s be real here when people think about Massachusetts and specifically the Boston area; Black empowerment isn’t exactly top of mind. But on Friday, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey announced she was creating an Advisory Council on Black Empowerment. The council, comprised of 30 Black
By Claretta Bellamy A white student who was expelled from Howard University’s law school is suing the historically Black university in Washington, D.C., alleging race discrimination and creating a hostile environment. Plaintiff Michael Ray Newman, who attended the Howard University School of
By D. Thompson Student funding, loan forgiveness, mental health, racial inequalities and resources for universities were some of the topics discussed last week at a White House press briefing with Vice President Kamala Harris, Senior Advisor for Public Engagement Keisha Lance Bottoms
By Nina Totenburg A handful of Republican-dominated states seemed on the verge of invalidating President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan at the Supreme Court on Tuesday, with a majority of the court’s conservatives indicating great skepticism. In 2003, after the 9/11 attacks,
By Nichol Chavez An alumni group of the Virginia Military Institute is publicly questioning why the college’s first Black superintendent was awarded a more “generous” bonus than last year. Retired Army Maj. Gen. Cedric T. Wins has served as superintendent of the public military college since
By Brittney Dabney Tuskegee University has been awarded $100,000 by the Microsoft Artificial Intelligence Initiative that allows researchers to leverage the technology to develop real-time resource management using reinforcement learning, one of the most discussed techniques in artificial intelligence (AI). Drs. Mohammad
By Amber D. Dodd As part of Howard’s legacy of pushing Black scholars forward, its School of Divinity works to marry spiritual and religious teaching together with an immersive experience of scholarship. Dean Yolanda Pierce, PhD, reflected on the importance of the
By Eric Bradner Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot lost her bid for a second term Tuesday, failing to make a top-two runoff in the latest demonstration of growing concerns about crime in one of the nation’s largest cities. Paul Vallas, a long-time public schools
