To complete the trifecta of HBCUs in the Atlanta University Center Consortium (including Spelman, Morehouse), Atlanta University was founded in 1865 by the American Missionary Association. The other half of the institution, Clark College, was founded in 1869. Clark was named after Bishop Davis W. Clark, who was the first president of the Freedmen’s Aid […]
Morehouse College of Atlanta, Georgia is one of only three all-male liberal arts colleges in the country. The school began as the Augusta Theological Institute in the basement of Springfield Baptist Church. Springfield is the oldest church in the United States, dating back to 1787. By 1913, the operation had moved to the Atlanta West […]
“We know that too many young men in our community continue to make bad choices. Growing up, I made quite a few myself. Sometimes I wrote off my own failings as just another example of the world trying to keep a black man down. I had a tendency sometimes to make excuses for me not […]
Roland Martin talks with Leland Shelton about President Obama’s monumental shout-out at the Morehouse College commencment. Read what the President said below: “When Leland Shelton was 4 years old, social services took him away from his mama, put him in the care of his grandparents. By age 14, he was in the foster care system. […]
Tom and the crew open the show talking about Morehouse‘s graduation, Dwyane Wade‘s prom, Venezuela’s toilet paper crisis and Prince‘s Billboard Awards performance.
President Barack Obama traveled to Atlanta Sunday and delivered a rare yet impassioned speech at Morehouse College about race and the evolution of black men in America. It was arguably one of the most significant speeches of Obama’s presidency. “For black men in the 1940s and 1950s, the threat of violence, the constant humiliations, large […]
Dorian Joyner Jr., didn’t have that experience when he started his collegiate journey at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. His dad, Dorian Joyner Sr., joined him. They were classmates and Junior didn’t mind. Now, they have completed the requirements to graduate and will officially become Morehouse men walking across the stage with President Obama at […]
Tension is mounting at Morehouse College. As President Barack Obama prepares to deliver a commencement address at Morehouse, a prominent Philadelphia minister who wrote a scathing critique of Obama now says he’s been disinvited to speak at Morehouse one day before Obama is scheduled to speak on May 18. Rev. Kevin Johnson, senior pastor of […]
While too many of us were concentrating on an NBA player’s sexuality despite the fact that most of the population had never heard of him, some much bigger news was transpiring. “Four Morehouse athletes were arrested in connection with sexual assaults,” was the headline of the Atlanta Journal Constitution’s website. Heartbreaking on so many levels, […]
A Clark Atlanta student faces felony aggravated assault charges for shooting a Morehouse student over pickup basketball game. Police arrested 21-year-old Amir Obafemi on Saturday after he allegedly shot Cornileus Savage at the Samuel A. Archer Hall on Morehouse’s campus. Savage was transported to Grady Memorial Hospital and is currently in stable condition. Doctors expect […]
The controversy over same-sex lifestyles is now going from legislatives floors to college classrooms. In 2013, Morehouse College will offer students the opportunity to enroll in a course on the history of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. Just a year ago, the historically black college found themselves under scrutiny for banning cross-dressing […]
It was Imar L. Hutchins, Esq., Morehouse College class of 1992, that started the ruckus with his letter to Robert C. Davidson, Jr., the chairman of the school’s board of trustees. Morehouse is a historically black college located in Atlanta. The school’s most famous alumnus is probably Martin Luther King, Jr., but that isn’t […]
