Xavier University of Louisiana is the first and only Black Catholic institution of higher learning in the United States. It was established on this day in 1915, and several notable alumni have passed through its halls en route to a variety of high-profile careers. The school was the brainchild of Saint Katherine Drexel of Philadelphia […]
Savannah State, an MEAC doormat ever since joining the conference in 2011, stunned Bethune-Cookman, a perennial contender for the league championship, with a 16-10 overtime victory in first-year coach Erik Raeburn’s home debut. Savannah State (1-2, 1-0 MEAC) put the game away on the strength of its defense. Bethune-Cookman got the ball first in overtime. […]
Spelman College, the nation’s top HBCU for women, is considering accepting transgender students. The news was announced by the college’s president late last week. The AJC.com reports: President Mary Schmidt Campbell included the information in a welcome back letter to the campus community on Thursday and posted on the private school’s website. Spelman is the […]
George Williams, the head coach of St. Augustine’s University’s track and field team, has built one of America’s most formidable collegiate athletic programs. Williams has coached over 40 Olympians over the course of his 40-plus year career and sent four students from the North Carolina HBCU to the Rio Summer Olympics. Williams has been coaching […]
John Silvanus Wilson Jr, President of Morehouse College and Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell, President of Spelman College talk to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about the first ever HBCU National Symposium on gun violence. “The student movement was born on the campuses of the AUC. The students there translated their intellectual capital into action that changed the city of […]
A group of historically black colleges say the Obama administration’s new loan forgiveness rules could shut them down for good, reports TheHill.com. The Department of Education proposed new college repayment rules in June that would make it easier for current and former students to seek loan forgiveness. But several HBCUs say it would “open the floodgates” […]
As we reported earlier, Wendy Williams got her a@# handed to her by social media and Roland Martin in particular after she made her ill-advised comments denouncing HBCUs and the NAACP last week on her show. However, today, they were together on Wendy’s purple couch where he dropped even more knowledge and enlightened her on […]
UPDATE: After an epic dragging by Black Twitter, Wendy now says her comments about HBCU’s were misinterpreted. On Thursday, Williams attempted to clarify her original comments, saying she has family members who are HBCU grads, then, doubling down on her insinuation that a historically Black college is as racist as the idea of a […]
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 […]
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 […]
Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential frontrunner, has promised to revitalize historically black colleges if she is elected to the White House. “We’re going to work closely with (HBCUs) … because they serve some of America’s brightest students, who need the most support and too often have gotten the least of it,” Clinton wrote in a […]
Oakland Raiders player Marquette King holds a unique distinction in the NFL. He is league’s lone Black punter, and just the fifth Black player in a position typically reserved for smaller white players. King, born October 26. 1988 in Macon, Ga., discovered a love for football as a teenager. Although he originally wanted to […]
