The Department of Defense (DoD) and the National Security Agency (NSA) have launched a new initiative aimed at increasing diversity in their cybersecurity workforce. The Cybersecurity Education Diversity Initiative (CEDI), announced Oct. 15, is a collaboration between NSA’s National Centers of Academic
The golf foursome of Phil Mickelson, Charles Barkley, Stephen Curry and Peyton Manning have found a tee time. The superstar athletes will square off Friday, Nov. 27 at Stone Canyon Golf Club in Oro Valley, Ariz., for Capital One’s The Match 3:
This would have been the 23rd year the city of Chicago hosted the annual Chicago Football Classic at Soldier Field. Though the coronavirus pandemic caused organizers to cancel the game, part of the celebration is going virtual. From Tuesday, Oct. 20, to Saturday,
(From left to right) Gilda Barabino, Makola M. Abdullah, Mary Schmidt Campbell, and C. Reynold Verret Historically Black Colleges and Universities Take Center Stage as the Nation Responds to COVID-19 and Systemic Racism By Molly Galvin Most U.S. colleges and universities are struggling
The daily number of positive COVID-19 tests increased by 3,200 after colleges resumed classes throughout the country As schools and colleges are reopening nationwide amid the ever present coronavirus pandemic, students at historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) are leading by example
The pageantry of bands at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) — the fifth-quarter band battles, the dancers and the halftime shows — are on hold for now with the cancellation of fall sports. HBCUs were affected on all levels by COVID-19,
Florida A&M University (FAMU) has received $1.5 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to operate its own COVID-19 testing lab and serve as a hub for other historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in Florida. The agreement provides funding through
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University is being considered as the first of five universities in a consortium to be established by the U.S. Space Force. A&T is the first university the Space Force has visited in its effort to establish
The presidents of two historically Black universities in New Orleans thought they were doing a public service by enrolling in a Covid-19 vaccine clinical trial back in August, so much so they urged their campus communities to consider doing the same.“I said
Black education was a subversive act from its inception. African Americans pursued education through clandestine means, often in defiance of law and custom, even under threat of violence. They developed what Jarvis Givens calls a tradition of “fugitive pedagogy”—a theory and practice
