HBCU News & Commentary
Bradley Gilbeaux and Damon Willis, MBA candidates at Clark Atlanta University, are the recipients of the 2015 FORD HBCU Community Challenge for their Telepath Water System proposal. Listen to the interview above to hear all about their project, the impact of HBCUs on their lives and much more! You are sure to be inspired! Like […]
In case you’ve been buried under a rock for the last decade, you may have heard of a singer named Adele, who just set the record for single week album sales in 2015 for her latest release, 25. The hit single from that release, “Hello” has already become one of those songs that you hear everywhere. […]
Pamela Alexander is the Director of Community Development for the Ford Motor Company Fund. She talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about Ford’s relationship with the 2016 Tom Joyner Fantastic Voyage as the title sponsor as well as the annual HBCU Community Challenge contest. The difference between the Ford Foundation and the Ford Motor Company: “It’s the philanthropic […]
Perhaps one of the biggest games in black college football is the 42nd annual Bayou Classic, where the Grambling State University Tigers and the Southern University Jaguars meet in New Orleans Thanksgiving weekend. Reggie Flood, the spokesperson for the historic game, talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about the four days event featuring a parade, […]
A violent threat has been made against students at Howard University by an anonymous person claiming to be a University of Missouri student, reports WNEW. The threat posted to a web forum Wednesday night reads, “I left MU yesterday because I couldn’t put up with it anymore. I go home to MD and what do […]
Terrence J is best known for his hosting duties on E! News alongside Maria Menounos as well as his budding acting career. But it’s his passion for philanthropy and Historically Black Colleges and Universities that makes the proud North Carolina A&T graduate want to support the same educational system that took a chance on him. […]
In a controversial piece entitled, “Dear Bennett College: Just end it with Morehouse already,” Aziza Jackson, a graduate of Bennett College in North Carolina, writes…
Allstate’s Quotes for Education program has partnership with the Tom Joyner Foundation to provide scholarships to students of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Since 2009 Allstate has donated over $1 million dollars and this year’s program has raised over $100,000 thus far and is more than halfway toward their goal for the 2015 program. Sharnada Martin, […]
Howard University’s Showtime Marching Band traded its regular uniforms for all-Black-everything over the weekend to protest the holdup of their scholarship money. Band members are supposed to get tuition help from the band’s annual budget and student scholarships. But so far, no band member has received their scholarship money, according to TheeTru1Project blog, which has been covering the protest. According […]
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — One student was shot dead and another wounded after gunfire erupted Sunday near dormitories on the Winston-Salem State University campus. Authorities were searching for a suspected gunman, but police and university spokesman Aaron Singleton would provide no identifying details. The historically black school urged visitors to the campus to stay away, […]
A unidentified student was shot dead on the campus of Miles College Wednesday night. IBTimes.com reports: The shooting occurred at an apartment on campus, the college said in an email to faculty and students shortly after midnight, WVTM13.com, a local news network, reported. The historically black college campus is located in Fairfield, Alabama, six miles west of […]
College homecomings and encouraging studies about African-Americans graduating from high school being more likely to attend college than other races, was overshadowed recently by more school shootings and other violence on or near the campuses of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. According to a Nielsen study on the changing profile of Black consumers, 70.9 percent […]
