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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Baton Rouge man was arrested Thursday on murder charges in the deaths of two Southern University students who were killed in a shootout at an off-campus party in April. Brandon Christopher Henderson, 25, was jailed on two counts of second-degree murder and one count of illegal use of a […]

DALLAS, May 23, 2016 – Allstate Insurance Company and the Tom Joyner Foundation will be presenting a check for $50,000 to Grambling State University as part of the annual Allstate Quotes for Education program, designed to help raise money for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Grambling State University, located in Grambling, LA, won the Allstate […]

Mere months after President Obama’s historic visit to Cuba, The Tom Joyner Foundation (TJF), the Dallas-based nonprofit that helps support historically black colleges and universities, lead a one-of-a-kind four-day mission to Cuba with numerous HBCU presidents. In a previously released press release, the TJF noted the trip was about discovering possible connections in the country, “We […]

Roland Martin talks to President of the Winston-Salem State University National Alumni Association Dr. Patti Sanders Smith, about the new North Carolina bill that could shut down three HBCUs (Elizabeth City University, Fayetteville State University and Winston-Salem State University. “This bill would reduce tuition at Winston Salem by 70%. The Divine Nine met in Raleigh and […]

For the first time in 132 years, Morehouse College has thee valedictorians. Each graduate earned a perfect 4.0 GPA, and one of them is White.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation has named Morgan State University a ‘National Treasure.’ This significant designation is crucial to the preservation strategy for Morgan State and long-term planning for the largest historically Black college in Baltimore, Maryland. While many Black colleges around the country are struggling financially, it’s gratifying to learn that a prominent […]

  Melissa Brown, Senior Manager, Marketing at The Home Depot announces the top winners of the 2016 Home Depot Retool Your School campus Improvement Grant Program on the Tom Joyner Morning Show. Click the link above to hear the winning schools! Like BlackAmericaWeb.com on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.  

Over the weekend a shooting at Tuskegee University left two students shot. AL.com reports: The shooting occurred between 3:30 and 4 a.m. in the parking lot of a university residence hall, Tuskegee University released in a statement. The incident could have been the result of an active shooter on the campus, according to the university. […]

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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The two Southern University students slain during a shootout at an off-campus party appeared to be “innocent bystanders” who were caught in the crossfire, authorities said Monday. A former Southern University football player remained jailed on charges he traded gunfire with another man in a shootout that killed the two […]

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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Two 19-year-old women who were Southern University students and members of the school’s athletic program were killed during a shootout early Sunday outside a Baton Rouge apartment complex, police and university officials said. Police arrested one of two men suspected in the shooting. Ernest Bernard Felton, 22, of Miami, is […]

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After Edward Jones, a tenured professor of 20 years at Alabama A&M University, filed a lawsuit against the school with the intention of bringing certain administrative concerns to light; and the school, in turn, started termination proceedings against him, an irrefutable sex tape of Jones was stumbled upon in the process. If we were keeping […]