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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 [...]

“America’s Doctor” Regina Benjamin will deliver the commencement address to more than 500 graduates at Spelman College and receive an honorary degree on Sunday, May 19 at 3 p.m. at the Georgia International Convention Center. Benjamin is the United States Surgeon General and a medical trailblazer with accolades like the first physician under age 40 and the first African-American woman to be [...]

Writing at The New York Times, Gramblinite Charles Blow asks himself how to encourage students during a struggling economy and low employment rates when he addresses Grambling State University’s graduates on May 10. I’m scheduled to deliver the commencement address Friday at my alma mater, Grambling State University in Louisiana, so I’ve been giving quite a bit of thought to the America into which [...]

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 [...]

There’s some controversy over the new cover of the NAACP’s quarterly journal The CRISIS that depicts Justice Antonin Scalia with a Confederate bandana. The cover is a result of some choice of words the conservative justice said when he called the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (an act that prohibits discriminatory voting practices) a “perpetuation of racial entitlement.“ Check out [...]

With the 245th pick in the 2013 NFL draft, the  selected linebacker Brandon Hepburn out of Florida A&M University. Hepburn is 6-foot-2, 240-pounds. He had 86 tackles (9.5 for a loss), 5.5 sacks, seven pass breakups and a forced fumble as a senior. Here’s a little bit more on Hepburn: The path from Division I-AA walk-on to being selected in [...]

As with several of the other signings the Chiefs have made during this post draft, undrafted free agent frenzy, the team is sticking close to home with Richardson. Richardson did not participate in the NFL Combine, but he did have a showing during Jackson State’s Pro Day. 2013 Jackson State Pro Day: A total of 10 players from Jackson State [...]

Once upon a time, Keith Pough was a 5’8″ wide receiver at Scotts Branch High School in South Carolina. That was a long time ago, however, and now Pough is a 6’2″, 239-pound linebacker who leaves Howard University as the all-time FCS leader in tackles for loss. Now was drafted by the National Football Association to the Buffalo Bills More [...]

The New Orleans Saints have selected Terron Armstead, an offensive tackle out of Arkansas-Pine Bluff, with their third-round pick in the NFL draft. The 6-foot-5, 306-pound lineman, picked 75th overall, represents New Orleans’ lone pick on Friday night. The Saints were docked their second-round selection as part of their punishment stemming from the NFL’s 2012 bounty findings. #Saints select Arkansas-Pine [...]

#QuinniteNation: Heard another rumor that the 2013 Commencement Speaker will be iconic.#NationBuilding — Michael Sorrell (@michaelsorrell) April 24, 2013 The cat is out of the bag. Paul Quinn College recently named comedian and activist Bill Cosby as its Commencement speaker on May 4, at 10 a.m. Cosby will address the class of 2013 who witness the institution transform academically and [...]

The nation’s historically Black colleges have shown some of the greatest gains in the graduation rates of African-American students, according to a report compiled by the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. The report, which showed sharp increases in student graduation rates between various periods generally ending in the last two years, shows steep gains at a number of the [...]

Several speakers at the NAFEO conference recently addressed the PLUS loan problem that caused many students to abandon their studies last fall. Check out some of their responses at Politic 365. “This is the worst situation I’ve seen in my 35 years as President,” said Dr. William Harvey, who has been the President of Hampton University in Virginia since 1978, yesterday [...]

The softball bats and golf clubs have been stored away. All is quiet, too, at the basketball gymnasium, the volleyball courts and the soccer field. Only the tennis team endures at Spelman College, and after the Great South Athletic Conference tournament the last weekend of April, it will also be done. Then Spelman, a historically black women’s college with alumnae [...]

Coach Anthony Evans rebuilt Norfolk State University’s basketball program, led the school to a MEAC title last year, lost Kyle O’Quinn and three other starters and then followed up by going unbeaten in the regular season this year–losing to Florida in the NCAA tournament. There is no doubt why coach Evans is a “hot coaching commodity.” Evans recently resigned from [...]

Clark Atlanta University (CAU) announced last week that Dr. Valerie Odero-Marah, associate professor and researcher in the Center for Cancer Research and Therapeutic Development (CCRTD), has received a new grant of $289,494 from the National Cancer Institute to support her research.  Her project, titled “The Role of SNAIL Signaling in Prostate Cancer Metastasis,” will be conducted for the next three [...]

Last week (Thursday, April 11) American Baptist College President Dr. Forrest E. Harris announced that the U.S Department of Education has approved the University’s recognition as a Historically Black College and University. ABC joins this historic list after a concentrated appeal that started in June 2012 and was later presented to Secretary Arne Duncan. (A school must be established before [...]

First lady Michelle Obama will speak at Bowie State University’s commencement on May 17, the White House said Thursday. The school, Maryland’s oldest historically black college and one of the oldest in the nation, is celebrating its 148th anniversary. The school is “part of the rich legacy of historically black colleges and universities that have been instrumental in educating generations [...]

Rand Paul came to Howard University on Wednesday and argued to students at the historically black college that the Republican Party hasn’t changed. It seemed at first like Paul misspoke. But Paul did, in fact, intend to say the GOP is the same party it’s always been. That might seem like a strange strategy for a speech to black students [...]