Spelman College is setting a precedent for historically Black colleges and universities across the country. On September 5 it was announced that the all-women’s college will openly admit trans women into their school for the 2018 to 2019 school year. The current president of the school, Mary Schmidt Campbell, made the announcement via a letter […]
Last week, two women of Spelman College died in two separate car accidents. Senior Erica Lanier, of Stone Mountain, Ga, died after a car accident Wednesday. Alexis Sims, a graduate of Spelman, was driving when she crashed her car, killing Lanier. According to 11 Alive WXIA, Sims was charged with vehicular homicide, and DUI. Reports […]
Last week two intelligent women of Spelman College died in two separate car accidents. Senior Erica Lanier, of Stone Mountain, Ga, died after a car accident Wednesday. Alexis Sims, a graduate of Spelman, was driving when she crashed her car killing Lanier. According to 11 Alive WXIA, Sims was charged with vehicular homicide, and DUI. […]
Mary-Pat Hector, a 19-year-old Spelman student, will become a part of history if she is elected to office in the state of Georgia.
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 […]
The account, which started posting May 2, details how the unidentified student was partying with upperclassmen from the men's college -- which is also the brother school to Spelman, a private women's college -- when four students took the anonymous poster into a room and began the sexual assault.
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.
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 […]
Remember those Spelman girls? Specifically, twins Kristie and Kirstie Bronner (yep, of the Bronner Bros. hair extravaganzas and company), who were the historic HBCU Spelman…
ATLANTA (AP) — An Atlanta college is suspending its endowed professorship with Bill Cosby amid allegations by more than two dozen women that the comedian and actor sexually assaulted them. Spelman College is the latest school to disassociate itself from Cosby. Spelman says in a statement that the program was established in the name of […]
There have been some major shifts on the annual list of top HBCUs! U.S. News & World Report ran the numbers, and announced its…
Spelman College President Dr. Beverly Tatum believe that her college has better days ahead as she enters her final year there. After 13 years running…
