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Tina Turner is making headlines around the globe for gracing the cover of Vogue Germany. This is the first time the 73-year-old grande dame of rock and R&B has graced a cover for the storied magazine franchise. For the April 2013 issue of the international imprint, the “legendary singer is seen rocking her signature honey blonde-highlighted hair, a silky navy blouse and [...]

If you haven’t tune into our very own radio show yet, you’re truly missing out. This Tuesday on the HBCU Buzz Show, we’re bringing two new and amazing guests, bringing some quality information that you need to know. Our first guest is artist LaShawnda Crowe Storm of Indianapolis, IN. LaShawnda will be speaking on her unique and note-worthy project, The Lynch Quilts Project. [...]

In our latest Buzz Spotlight, HBCU Buzz sits down with the originators of Aussie & Davis for another exclusive interview. (Click here for the former.) A luxury life style company of the American fashion designers Jeffrey Mark, Aaron Coad, Shannon Jean-Louis and Swain Soo-Hong, Aussie & Davis proclaims, “When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.” Check [...]

HBCU Buzz stopped Craig Stokes, a graduate of North Carolina A&T and a National Youth and College Speaker, for advice that can benefit current HBCU students. Check out some simple tips from a young, black entrepreneur in the Buzz’s latest interview. Question: How does graduating from an HBCU play a part in your life? Answer: It’s extremely difficult to get [...]

The Rams are playing in Saturday’s NCAA Division II National Championship game in Florence, Ala., and they’ll have plenty of support. Not only will WSSU fans being cheering them on, but the team is vying to become the first from a historically black college or university to win the D-II football title. “Saturday, we had some CIAA teams that brought [...]

For many, the start of a new year means a new job, new internship, new semester, and new opportunities. Today on the HBCU Buzz Show, we are honored to have Ms. Janet Owens lending her expertise to get you tight and right when looking to apply for a new job or internship in the new year! With more than 20 years of professional [...]

Ever since his mother put him on a work out plan at a local gym at the age of 15, Adam Badger, now 20, has been proactive in maintaining his physical image, to say the least. This Washington D.C. native and Louisiana raised fitness entrepreneur is studying criminal justice at Florida A&M University, but he is involved in far more [...]

The HBCU Buzz Show is excited to have Tradition Ever Since as guests on the Tuesday November 13th show! Check out and purchase their one of a kind products at: http://www.traditioneversince.com   Full article to follow.

Many of pop culture’s biggest names have their own remarkable origin story. A lucky break, a serendipitous career move, or the life experience and knowledge gained at university. It should come as no surprise, then, that quite a number of today’s black leaders — actors, singers, authors and political figures — all share a common bond: as fellow HBCU alumni. [...]

It’s always hard for fans when the hosts of “106 & Park” change. Though AJ and Free, the original hosts, left the show in 2005, a Google search of the words “Bring AJ and Free back” will prove that some fans still have not let go. Big Tigger and Julissa filled in for a while, but in 2006 Rocsi Diaz [...]

Reverend Jesse Jackson Sr. made a personal petition to Gambia’s fitful president, Yahya Jammeh, to discharge two men convicted on the routine charge of treason. Prisoners Amadou Scattred Janneh and Tasmir Jasseh, high ranking officials in the Gambia government, were held in the country’s infamous Mile 2 Central Prison. The feat to free the prisoners was no easy task. In [...]

Following his own free will, well known Central State student Santana (Tana Rocks) Silas talks about his HBCU experience and leadership on the yard, future goals, and new music during an HBCU Buzz interview. There is nothing like the HBCU experience. Attending these institutions, one has the opportunity to walk among and network with modern leaders in fields like engineering, [...]

The statement, “It’s never too late!” is all too true for Lem Major’s life.  Majors worked the majority of his life with an eighth grade education. In the 1970’s he earned his GED, then 16 years ago he enrolled at American Baptist College in Nashville, Tennessee. This was his first time in the classroom since 1937. He had to go [...]

Kesi Hess is the Vice-President of Fellowship of Christian Athletes and is involved in My Sister’s Keeper Inc. She also pays On Tennessee State University’s basketball team as a senior. She has been known as an electrifying scorer that is a deadly three point shooter. She is from Columbus, OH and majors in accounting. When I interviewed her, she talked [...]

Ariell Tillman is a senior at Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee and is from St. Louis, Missouri. She is a member of the TSU Social work club, New Direction Gospel Choir, My Sisters Keeper Inc. and Vision College Choir. She is not a political science major; however, she speaks to political issues fluently. We had a transformative dialogue about [...]

Mr. Reggie Sharpe Jr. is the President of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel Assistants program, President of the Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Society, Chaplain of Alpha Rho Chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and preaching assistant at Greater Travelers Rest Baptist Church in Decatur, Georgia. He is a senior and majors in Religious Studies. He plans [...]

One of the students, Nigena Hamim, stated his goal in life, he said, “I have a dream of fighting ethnic divisions in my country and I am encouraged to realize my vision…After all, I believe that I was born at a time like this to serve and develop my community.” He already has a communal dream that he plans to [...]