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HOUSTON (AP) — A grand jury has indicted a police officer after he used a stun gun on a City Council member while arresting him in a small, predominantly black Texas college town, authorities said Monday. Prairie View officer Michael Kelley was indicted Friday for official oppression, a misdemeanor, said E. Rivera, chief investigator for […]

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In a new BuzzFeed report, sexual assault survivors from Spelman wonder why more isn’t being done to punish the perps from their brother school.

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, […]

Following online threats and a number of racially charged vandalism incidents at the University of Missouri, officials at Howard University are boosting security on campus after also receiving threats targeting Black students.

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 […]

A man was critically wounded and two others injured early Wednesday during a wild shootout at a house party near TSU in Nashville.

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UPDATE: 2:25 p.m Officials say a student was killed during a shooting outside a Texas Southern University student housing complex, and that two people have been detained for questioning. University President John Rudley says the student was a freshman at the school. The student’s name, age and gender haven’t been released. Houston police spokeswoman Jodi Silva […]

A person was shot Tuesday night after a campus poetry slam ended at Texas Southern University. According to ABC 13: A spokesperson confirms the shooting happened on the “Tiger Walk” around 10pm. The “Tiger Walk” is the walkway that runs the entire length of the campus. We’re told the two men involved were at the […]

Xavier University of Louisiana, located in a western neighborhood of New Orleans, produces the highest number of Black medical students in the nation, the New York…

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WILBERFORCE, Ohio (AP) — A historically black college in southwest Ohio says it is permanently removing the name of comedian Bill Cosby from its communications building. In a statement Friday, Central State University in Wilberforce says the Camille O. & William H. Cosby Communications Center has been renamed the CSU Communications Center. The school had […]

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A professorship established by Bill Cosby and his wife Camille is no more at Spelman College. The BBC reports the Atlanta,GA-based historically black instutition has discontinued the Cosby-funded professorship amid multiple sexual assault and drugging allegations from several women that date back several decades. The position was provisionally suspended last year when news of the […]

Legendary SWAC basketball coach Dave “The Wiz” Whitney died Sunday at his home in Biloxi, Mississippi. He was 85 years old. A native of Lexington,…