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Those who know a thing or two about historically black institutions are more than likely fluent with the trials and tribulations of its financial aid: The struggle. Check out Creative Loafing Atlanta‘s Rodney Carmichael report on Morehouse College President, John Silvanus Wilson Jr., take on HBCU money woes and LGBT issues. Incoming Morehouse College President John Silvanus Wilson Jr. had [...]

The Charlotte Post U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) is lobbying President Barack Obama to provide more support for historically black colleges. Hagan sent a letter to Obama on Wednesday requesting his 2014 budget build upon previous administration support for HBCUs, including 10 in North Carolina. Noting that black colleges make up less than 3 percent of U.S. schools of higher education, [...]

Instead of a holiday morning sleeping, a group of student gathered at the historically Black college in Louisiana to watch the inauguration. At Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, it was not just Inauguration Day. It was also the holiday celebrating the 84th birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. and, therefore, a day of no classes. About 35 students at [...]

The Root‘s managing editor, Sheryl Huggins Salomon, takes a look at how far not only we as black people have come, but America entirely, after the Inauguration of Barack Obama. Serving a second term, the nation’s first African-American POTUS is legendary; someone many of us look up to. Someone several of us strive to be like. But only few will take the [...]

The widow of slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers will deliver the invocation at President Barack Obama’s second Inauguration on Jan. 21, 2013 The Presidential Inaugural Committee announced Tuesday that Myrlie Evers-Williams would deliver the prayer. It comes 50 years after her husband was gunned down in the driveway of his Mississippi home. The inauguration falls on Martin Luther King [...]

Barack Obama, the first black U.S. president, won re-election rather convincingly November 6, 2012. Obama easily captured 323 of electoral votes Tuesday (only 270 are needed to win) vs. Gov. Mitt Romney’s 206 in a showdown expected to be a lot closer than the actual end result. In his win, Obama held another first: the first black American to win [...]

Four years ago, Jakarah Porter was so excited she could hardly stand it. She was a high-school senior in Mobile, Ala., who was about to cast her first vote in a presidential election, and it was going to be for Barack Obama, who would become the first African-American president. “I was part of history,” said Porter, the president of Dillard [...]

As we continue our daily updates on the state of the ground game, we want to turn attention to the African American vote. The African American community is solidly and overwhelmingly behind President Obama, because they know he is fighting for all of us, not just some of us. Our campaign has been committed to organizing in the African American [...]

Surviving slavery, segregation and discrimination has forged a special pride in African-Americans. Now some are saying this hard-earned pride has become prejudice in the form of blind loyalty to President Barack Obama. Are black people supporting Obama mainly because he’s black? If race is just one factor in blacks’ support of Obama, does that make them racist? Can blacks’ support [...]

President Barack Obama has refused to extend to victims of Hurricane Isaac in Louisiana the same relief he criticized former President George W. Bush for withholding from New Orleans residents in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The move has frustrated state and local politicians and contradicts his own campaign rhetoric about disaster relief from just one election cycle ago. In [...]

Food. Music. Voting? Students at Meharry Medical College, Fisk University and other Nashville campuses are putting together an early-voting rally to be held this month in a bid to boost turnout among the area’s college students following implementation of Tennessee’s voter identification law. Operation: Wake-Up and Vote — which organizers shorten to Operation: WAVE — will feature food and entertainment [...]

Civil rights activist Al Sharpton told a Fayetteville audience Saturday that he believes November’s election will play out as one of the most important in the nation’s history. “Whoever wins this election won’t just impact the next four years,” he said. “It will impact the next 100 years.” The silver-haired MSNBC talk show host spoke to about 1,200 people at [...]

Delawareans got their chance to listen to President Barak Obama and former Gov. Mitt Romney argue their platforms directly to each other in the first of three televised presidential debates Wednesday. The debate, which focused on the economy, health care and government’s role in people’s lives, were supposed to give people a view of the two men vying for the [...]

With the pervasive, wandering, omnipotent minds of today’s young adult populace, it is imperative not to assume anyone’s political party. Without surprise, not everyone in the black community is democratic, and furthermore, not everyone is voting for President Obama in the re-elections. What many students do not recognize or inquire about is the “why” behind such partiality.  One of the [...]

Citizens across America have different reasons to vote in the presidential election, students at Albany State University are no exception. “Federal aid is one of the issues that for me as a student, is very big”, said ASU junior Brandon Nelson. Other students say they’re concerned about the job market after they graduate. The student government association is trying to [...]

A proclamation by the President of the United States of America: The founders of our Nation’s first colleges and universities for African Americans shared a fundamental belief that, with the right education, all people can overcome barriers of injustice to achieve their fullest potential. These pioneers understood that education means emancipation – a path to freedom, independence, and success. More [...]

Democratic officials are moving President Barack Obama’s convention speech Thursday indoors because of the possibility of severe weather. Obama had planned to accept his party’s nomination in an outdoor football stadium before a crowd of up to 74,000 people. But Obama officials said forecasters have predicted severe thunderstorms Thursday in the 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. hour, raising concerns about [...]

Democrats open their national convention Tuesday offering President Barack Obama as America’s best chance to revive the ragged U.S. economy and asking voters to be patient with incomplete results so far. Michelle Obama, in her opening-night speech, aims to give people a very personal reminder of “the man that he was before he was president.” “The truth is that he has [...]