Central State students march for peace, justice and prayer in Trayvon Martin case
"More justice! More peace! More justice! More peace! More justice! More Peace!"
About 100 people marched for peace and prayer for Trayvon Martin's family at Central State University...
Star witness Rachel Jeantel offered full scholarship to any HBCU from Tom Joyner
Tom Joyner offered Rachel Jeantel, the close friend of Trayvon Martin and the last person to talk to him before he was fatally shot, a...
Neufville Named Coppin State University President
Dr. Mortimer Neufville, a veteran higher education administrator, was named president of Coppin State University president July 9 by William E. Kirwan, chancellor of...
Optimism prevails as Alabama A&M touts financial recovery
All that was missing from Thursday's upbeat committee meetings of the Alabama A&M University Board of Trustees was a win in the Magic City...
Ala-Curtis Campbell selected as Tuskegee’s Athletic Director
TUSKEGEE, Ala-Curtis Campbell has been chosen to serve as Tuskegee University's new athletic director after an extensive search and interviews with an array of...
Bowie State University Professor Named Apple Distinguished Educator – Allissa Richardson
A Bowie State University communications professor was named a 2013 Apple Distinguished Educator for her use of emerging technology in creating a student mobile...
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Opens Elementary School in Haiti
As the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority celebrates the 100th anniversary of its founding this year, they will also be celebrating an additional accomplishment: the grand...
Jackson State to host 2013 HBCU Awards
More than 330 of 489 students at Wilberforce University came together and threatened to leave school for nearby Central State University in order for their...
Homeless Teen, Valedictorian, now Spelman College Student.. Meet Chelsea Fearce!
Did we forget to mention that she is enterting into Spelman as a Junior!!
Chelsea Fearce is a shining example of a student that didn’t...
NCCU opens arms to LGBT students
April 9 commemorated the opening of N.C. Central University’s first LGBT Student Resource Center. The LGBT Center is located in G-64 of the Alphonso Elder...
New crowdfunding website BlackStartup.com is brain child of Morehouse Alumni
As a Morehouse, Berkeley and Harvard-educated man, a world of opportunities has been available to Nathan Bennett Fleming. Instead of starting his career by...
Cleveland hero Charles Ramsey is former HBCU student
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcLSI3oyqhs
Charles Ramsey, a local dishwasher in Cleveland, Ohio who helped rescue three woman and a girl from captivity, once attended Central State University for...
U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin to deliver Commencement address at Spelman
“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...
Gramblinite Charles Blow speaks on Commencement speech, May 10
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...
2013 Nation’s Football Classic Announcement, Tickets on sale 5/3!
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...
Justice Antonin Scalia: Voting Rights Act is a “perpetuation of racial entitlement”
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...
Detroit Lions draft Linebacker Brandon Hepburn of Florida A&M
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...
Kansas City Chiefs sign Jackson State’s Rico Richardson
As with several of the other signings the Chiefs have made during this post draft, undrafted free agent frenzy, the team is sticking close...
