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A little more than a year after a shooting left a Petersburg man dead and a Virginia State University student wounded just off campus, VSU student Ryan Christopher Simms will go on trial today on charges he killed a man in a drug rip-off scheme that went terribly wrong. The jury trial, which is scheduled to last four days, comes [...]

After four (five, six, etc.) years of college, students at Morehouse College had to tackle one more obstacle at graduation today: the rain. President Barack Obama, who address the historically black college as Commencement speaker, jokingly told students the unavoidable truth. “I also have to say you all are going to get wet,” Obama said at graduation. “I would be out there [...]

Did you vote for your HBCU campus queen for a chance to be featured in the September issue of Ebony magazine? Have you voted for your favorite HBCU Campus Queen yet? You can vote more than once. Click to see the queens: bit.ly/13G3IA8 #HBCU — EBONY (@EBONYMag) May 16, 2013 The Ebony Campus Queens program honors young women who are role [...]

It is nothing but California Love for record producer, rapper and entrepreneur Dr. Dre and his next business move. Dr. Dre along with longtime friend and business partner Jimmy lovine have donated $70 million to create a new institute at the University of Southern California, according to school officials on Tuesday night. The Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for Arts, Technology [...]

Many of the 106 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are in need of major renovations in order to remain competitive and attract top talent. The Home Depot recognized this need, and responded by providing help through a campus-improvement grant program called Retool Your School. This program, now in its fourth year, provides aid to help historically black colleges and [...]

Charles Ramsey, a local dishwasher in Cleveland, Ohio who helped rescue three woman and a girl from captivity, once attended Central State University for one semester in the fall of 1989. According to University officials, Ramsey is said to have taken classes like health, mathematics and student orientation as a freshman student at Central State in 1989. “The university applauds [...]

Starting July 1 Parris Malone, a junior at Tennessee State, will begin serving as President for the Student Tennessee Education Association, the largest professional organization in the state that advocates for educators, students preparing to become educators, and students in the public school system. Malone has been apart of TSU chapter of TEA since she first started classes at the [...]

  As the lights went out and his fellow students settled into their dorms, Joshua Williams would store two duffel bags of belongings in a friend’s room and disappear into the darkness. He would leave the secure surroundings of the Bethune-Cookman University campus and head across the International Speedway Boulevard bridge and walk, sometimes all night. In the early morning [...]

You can connect with students from Howard University’s Department of Theatre Arts to students from Tuskegee University’s Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences–all within the click of a button. The ‘follow’ button on social media network Twitter that is. Here’s what some people tweeted this past week on students graduating from HBCUs Nothing is more motivating than going to a graduation filled with nothing but young [...]

Comedian, actor and civil rights activist Bill Cosby had some jokes to tell at Paul Quinn College’s 141st Commencement ceremony in Dallas on Saturday. “I’m very proud to be an honorary — keep that in mind, honorary — graduate,” Cosby said on his honorary degree the school presented him. ”Don’t ask me to send any money. Nice try, but don’t write [...]

Winston-Salem State has played in several big games over the past few seasons, but few of them have found their way to television. The Rams will reap the benefits of their success this year as the national runner-up will kick off the 2013 season on the tube. The NCAA announced on Monday that WSSU’s Sept. 5 season opener against UNC-Pembroke will [...]

If you want to keep in touch with former classmates or reach out to other alums, the Clark Atlanta University- Division of Communication Arts Alumni group on LinkedIn is the perfect match for you. The alumni group allows students to network with people in Public Relations and Communication careers and other fields like higher education, nonprofit organization management, law and information technology and services. [...]

by Tommy Meade, HBCU Buzz Hours before graduation I asked Central State University’s Commencement speaker Roland S. Martin what people like him do to prepare for big speeches. Martin replied, “I don’t practice.” @rolandsmartin @tommymeade_ To quote Deion Sanders: “Does a cheetah stretch before it runs down it’s prey?” @rolandsmartin is #Anatural — Bill Carroll (@elevenbravo138) May 4, 2013 And a natural [...]

The class of 2013 will enter an improved economy and is expected to earn more through its first year in the workforce than its counterparts in the class of 2012, United Press International reports. A report from the National Association of Colleges and Employers says this year’s graduates should earn an average starting salary of $44,928 — a 5.3 percent jump over last [...]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A little known jockey and a lightly regarded horse pulled off an upset victory for trainer Doug O’Neill at last year’s Kentucky Derby. On Saturday, he’ll give another relative unknown a chance of not only winning the big race but joining him in the record books if that happens. Kevin Krigger, the first black jockey in the Derby since 2000, will be aboard O’Neill’s Goldencents, [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The countdown begins! Events DC announced today that tickets for the third annual AT&T Nation’s Football Classic® go on sale at 10 a.m. on Friday, May 3 at Ticketmaster, the Howard University Box Office at Cramton Auditorium and the Morehouse College Bookstore. The Howard Bison meet the Morehouse Maroon Tigers on Saturday, September 7 at RFK Stadium at 3:30 p.m. All lower [...]

ATLANTA — Three Morehouse College athletes and another student have been accused of rape and other charges. These stem from two alleged assaults in March and April. Chukwudi Ndudikwa and Malcolm Frank face rape and aggravated sodomy charges. Tevin Mgbo is looking at charges of aggravated sodomy, kidnapping and reckless conduct. In an unrelated incident Lucien Kidd was arrested and charged with Rape in [...]

Vic speaks out after chief placed on leave The victim of a sexual assault spoke exclusively to WAVY.com the same day her university’s police chief was placed under investigation. WAVY.com has confirmed Elizabeth City State University Police Chief Sam Beamon was placed on administrative leave on April 25, stemming from the campus’ handling of a complaint of assault and sexual [...]