What do you get when you take your love of film outside of the classroom? A invitation to one of the world’s top film schools! HBCU Digest reports: North Carolina A&T State University alumnus and aspiring filmmaker Jelani Elom may have been rejected by several domestic film schools, but will soon begin his journey to […]
Norfolk State University has been named the Tom Joyner Foundation ‘School of the Month’ for September. The university, located in Norfolk, Va., has 6,728 students, offering more than 50 degree programs at the undergraduate, master’s and doctoral levels. On its 134-acre campus, there are 35 buildings, including state-of-the-art technology centers, a 28,000-seat football stadium and […]
Two young black boys were arrested in connection with the shooting death of Jermane Clark, a North Carolina A&T State University football player, last week. Greensboro natives, Kendrick Robinson, 22, and Lemiah Sanders Jr., 20, were charged with first-degree murder and robbery with a dangerous weapon. WXII2 reports: Clark, 22, was found shot just after […]
A few proud Southern University alumni proved their Jaguar pride donating $100,000 to the Baton Rouge, Louisiana campus. The generous gift is part of a 3-1 matching program between the oil and gas conglomerate and the Golden Roots Annuitants Club and will be available for student scholarships beginning in 2015. The group of SU graduates […]
Not everyone is pleased that Sean “Diddy” Combs plans to deliver the commencement speech at Howard University on May 10. In fact, some black folks are actually scratching their heads in disbelief. They took to Twitter to ask Howard University officials to explain their decision. Some argue that Howard should have selected a Howard graduate […]
Sean “Diddy” Combs has been chosen to deliver the commencement address at his old stomping grounds, Howard University. The HBCU in the Nation’s Capital announced Tuesday that Diddy will also be among five people to receive honorary degrees as trailblazers in their fields. The Bad Boy founder, a student at the school in the late […]
A Morgan State University professor was convicted Tuesday in connection with a scheme to defraud the National Science Foundation and his students. The Baltimore Sun reports: Manoj Kumar Jha, 46, of Severn faces 20 years in prison for each of four counts of wire fraud, and for one count each of mail fraud and falsification […]
