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HBCU Buzz stopped Craig Stokes, a graduate of North Carolina A&T and a National Youth and College Speaker, for advice that can benefit current HBCU students. Check out some simple tips from a young, black entrepreneur in the Buzz’s latest interview. Question: How does graduating from an HBCU play a part in your life? Answer: It’s extremely difficult to get [...]

Late to a previous class, I found myself right on colored folk time arriving to my next ‘get-together’: 2:00 o’clock Geology. Hooray. Our “professor” is short in height, black/African, and…reserved in clothing, to say the least. Meanwhile, some of my fellow colleagues and I prepared to enjoy class with our usual routine. I counted 5 or so cellphones (thumbs inching [...]

The fellas over at The Princeton Review recently named Tuskegee University as the ‘least awesome college town’ in the nation. Hmm…I wonder why? Blacks represent 95 percent of the population in Tuskegee, Alabama, where TU was founded in 1881. Famed educator Booker T. Washington got the nod to become the university’s ‘first teacher’ and took the century old school from [...]

Is there any correlation/similarities between the African-American retention rates at primarily white institutions (PWIs) versus historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs)?  What are the factors, if any, causing and/or preventing students from graduating and accomplishing and undergraduate graduation on time (within 4-5 years)?”  I was told I would receive a response and be connected with a student government officials so [...]

An HBCU blazes the trail in championing LGBT rights on their campuses. Maryland’s Bowie State University is the first historically black college or university to introduce a resource center specifically catering to the LGBT community, according to the LGBT advocacy group human rights campaign. Bowie State opened the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersexed and Allies (LGBTQIA) Resource Center in [...]

It is not hard for Rodney Perry to stand out on the campus of Clark Atlanta University. Impeccably dressed in all black and a crisp white shirt, he brushes back his shoulder-length dreadlocks as he mingles and laughs with fellow students on a recent freezing Wednesday morning. A freshman class president straight out of central casting, Perry is part of [...]

A few minutes into a breakout session at last week’s Creating Change LGBT equality conference in Baltimore, the presenter noted that more than 150 colleges in the U.S. have programs aimed at supporting LGBT students—but none of those schools are HBCUs. Historically black colleges and universities, presenter Dominique McIntosh said, “are lagging behind in providing institutional support.” While HBCUs have [...]

Attorneys arguing that Maryland’s history of racially-segregated higher education is ongoing used decades-old state reports to try to make their point as a federal trial began. The Coalition for Equity and Excellence in Maryland Higher Education alleges that practices carried over from the days of segregation at the state’s higher education commission put historically black schools at a competitive disadvantage. [...]

The National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) is the umbrella organization of the nations historically black colleges, universities (HBCUs) and predominantly black institutions (PBIs). NAFEO provides an international voice for the nations’ HBCUs to place and maintain issues of equal opportunity in higher education on the national agenda. They recognize that Blacks in America deserve the same [...]

The Republican-led House of Representatives and its near majority in the Senate want to shrink government. This season a GOP leader (Virginia’s very own Rep. Eric Cantor) recommended withholding domestic disaster aid because the emergency spending expanded government. Now there’s news that GOP leaders want to cut Title III Higher Education funding, 40 percent of historically black colleges and universities’ [...]