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 […]
Grambling State University will be featured in the National Museum of African American History and Culture when it opens in spring 2016 in Washington. In a statement released by Grambling’s President, Dr. Frank Pogue is excited about the opportunity for the Universities history to be captured in such a way. “Having a space in a […]
The Florida A&M Rattlers, who already have been one of the biggest surprises in all of college baseball this season, picked up their biggest win in years Wednesday night, shocking No. 6-ranked Florida, 4-3, in Gainesville. Tallahassee.com reports: FAMU, under first-year head coach Jamey Shouppe, led for most of the game and earned their first […]
First Lady Michelle Obama will deliver the 2014 commencement speech at Dillard University in New Orleans, LA on May 10th. The University is supporting the First Lady’s higher education initiative and doing their part to answer the President’s call to ensure that by the year 2020, America once again has the highest proportion of college graduates in […]
Titus Ziegler, of Atlanta, Ga., is the winner of the Tom Joyner Foundation® “Full Ride Scholarship” that will cover full tuition, room and board (on-campus only) and books up to 10 semesters. Tom Joyner, the Foundation’s chairman and founder, announced his scholarship today during the “Tom Joyner Morning Show,” which airs in markets across the […]
Monday, the Thurgood Marshall College Fund launched a new nationwide campaign, National “I Love My HBCU” Month, to honor historically black colleges and universities and the pride that…
Monday, the Thurgood Marshall College Fund launched a new nationwide campaign, National “I Love My HBCU” Month, to honor historically black colleges and universities and the pride that…
Bethune Cookman women’s coach Vanessa Blair-Lewis and her husband, veteran NBA official Eric Lewis, don’t like missing basketball games. So after Blair-Lewis gave birth to a baby boy — Blair Eric Lewis — a few hours before Monday’s game against Howard, she watched the game on the school’s livestream feed from her hospital bed a […]
Dr. Gwendolyn Boyd won’t be entertaining any overnight lovers – at least not on the campus of Alabama State University. Boyd, 58, Alabama State University’s first female president, signed a contract presented by the university’s trustees that included an unusual – and perhaps sexist – stipulation: She can’t have lovers stay overnight at her residence […]
ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) — A student was shot Friday outside an on-campus dorm at South Carolina State University, and police were looking for four men who left campus. The student was wounded outside of the Hugine Suites around 1:30 p.m., University Police Chief Mernard Clarkson said. The gunmen left campus before police could catch them, […]
“The Russ Parr Morning Show” is reporting a lot of Howard University students are outraged by a huge advertising mistake made by Giant Food Stores. Listen to the audio player to hear why students are upset, causing Giant to make a formal apology to the historically black university. Keep Up With The Russ Parr Morning […]
Fisk University of Nashville, Tennessee was founded in 1865 by John Ogden, Reverend Erastus Cravath, and Reverend Edward Smith. It was named after General Clinton B. Fisk of the Tennessee Freedman’s Bureau. The school held its first classes in 1866 at the Union army barracks with students ranging from ages seven to seventy. It had […]
