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BY DARLENE SUPERVILLE, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS President Barack Obama, in a soaring commencement address on work, sacrifice and opportunity, told graduates of Morehouse College Sunday to seize the power of their example as black men graduating from college and use it to improve people’s lives. Noting the Atlanta school’s mission to cultivate, not just educate, good men, Obama said graduates should [...]

Michelle Obama spoke to 600 graduates and thousands of family, friends and supporters at Bowie State University in Maryland on Friday. FOTUS Obama reminded students in her 21-minute address of struggles blacks faced in the past and the importance of personal responsibility. “Today, more than 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, more than 50 years after the end of Separate But [...]

Former President Bill Clinton delivered the Commencement address at Howard University on the Upper Quadrangle of the main campus just hours ago. “Try to do something that will make you happy,” Clinton said to hundreds of graduates from the historically black university. Bill Clinton gave a great message at Howard’s graduation today! — g · n i u s (@visualg_nius) May 11, 2013

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 [...]

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 [...]

It was a big day for HBCU student-athletes at the 2013 NFL Draft yesterday. Here’s a quick recap: High school wide receiver turned feared linebacker Keith Pough was drafted by the Buffalo Bills. Pough was the all-time FCS leader in tackles for loss. Everybody’s path to greatness is different some take the elevator, some take the escalators & I have [...]

Last night President Barack Obama as at the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

America’s blacks voted at a higher rate than other minority groups in 2012 and by most measures surpassed the white turnout for the first time, reflecting a deeply polarized presidential election in which blacks strongly supported Barack Obama while many whites stayed home. Had people voted last November at the same rates they did in 2004, when black turnout was [...]

Graduating this May and leaving the yard not sure what to do next? Check out USA Today‘s article on the top 20 cities for college graduates. 5. Minneapolis A metropolis with a down-home vibe was exactly what Sarah Cutler was looking for. The senior at Truman State University in Kirksville, Mo., grew up in the suburbs of St. Louis, but [...]

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 [...]

After the Department of Education began to implement stricter requirements for PLUS loan applicants under 34 CFR § 682.201 (c)(2), over 14.616 students from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) were forced to abandon their studies in the fall of 2012 after a dramatic spike in loan denials.  The parents of the students applying for Parent PLUS loans suddenly found they could be [...]

The widow of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, who was killed by a white supremacist outside his Jackson, Miss., home in 1963, laments that her husband is remembered primarily as an assassination victim. This June, to mark the 50th anniversary of his slaying, a series of events will pay tribute to Evers’ work toward racial equality during his 37 years. [...]

North Carolina A&T State University has been put on lockdown after reports of a man with a rifle on the Greensboro school’s campus. A University Alert is in affect NCAT is on lockdown everyone is NCAT A University Alert is in affect NCAT is on lockdown everyone is informed to stay inside per the message on the ncat.edu page — [...]

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 [...]

Dillard University will serve free food on its main campus, April 4 at 7 p.m. in New Orleans, Louisiana, according to President Walter M. Kimbrough’s blog. The event will bring light to the university’s new program ‘Brain Food,’ a new standard in college lecture series. April 18th. Lawless chapel. A new era of lectures comes to @du1869. twitter.com/DUbrainfood/st… — Brain [...]