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Ms. Shannon Eastin, a referee from the HBCU’s MEAC, is making history as the first female to referee in an NFL game when she serves as line judge in the Green Bay Packers preseason game against the Chargers in San Diego. Eastin, a 17-year veteran as a football referee, has spent the last four working in the MEAC amongst Norfolk [...]

The Southwestern Athletic Conference has given the NFL Jerry Rice, the league’s all-time reception leader; Walter Payton, the No. 2 all-time rushing leader; Michael Strahan, the league’ single-season sack champion and Doug Williams, MVP of Super Bowl XXII. In three of the past four NFL drafts, the SWAC has given the league nothing. Zero. Zilch. Nada. Bupkiss. Have the SWAC [...]

Full List of Signed HBCU Athletes Baltimore Ravens Morgan State Tight End -Wide Receiver Lamont Bryant Dallas Cowboys Prairie View A&M DE-LB Adrian Hamilton Green Bay Packers Winston-Salem State RB Nicholas Cooper Houston Texans Grambling WR Mario Louis Bowie State DE/OLB Delano Johnson Indianapolis Colts Hampton CB Micah Pellerin Jacksonville Jaguars Bethune-Cookman LB Ryan Davis Florida A&M WR Kevin Elliott [...]

Donald Driver, a wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers, is looking forward to bringing his “smile” and his “character” to the dance floor of “Dancing With The Stars” and says a Mirror Ball Trophy would pair up well with the one his team earned for winning the Super Bowl last year. The 37-year-old football player was announced as a [...]

Alabama A&M will retire the college jersey of Indianapolis Colts defensive end Robert Mathis in a ceremony on March 3. Mathis’ No. 55 will be retired at halftime of Alabama A&M’s annual spring game. Mathis, who turns 31 on Sunday, was a four-year starter at the Southwestern Athletic Conference school. As a senior in 2002, he set a Division I-AA [...]

HBCUBuzz’s Kev Keise sits down with Grambling State University football coach Doug Williams, the first African-American to start and win a Super Bowl.

The lawyers cost money but they could keep her son out of jail, so Leslie Redman kept paying them until there was nothing left and she had to declare bankruptcy. Soon came the creditors to collect for the various unpaid bills, and they took the car and the house. Her husband vanished, leaving her with just her daughter and her [...]

Many would have you believe that the hurdles and obstacles that black athletes have had to overcome ended with the integration in baseball with Jackie Robinson. At that time, black baseball players were supposed to be enjoying the spoils of their civil rights accomplishment. The reality is that Jackie Robinson became baseball’s first African American player in 1947; the last [...]

“Sweetness: The Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton”, a  biography about the late great NFL running back written by Sports Illustrated  columnist Jeff Pearlman is scheduled to arrive in bookstores across the county October 4th. This biography tells a somber and gloomy story about  the NFL Hall of Fame veteran, a story filled with drugs, infidelity and suicide. Walter Payton was a [...]

(July 22, 2011 – Photo by Pool/Getty Images North America) The political buzz on HBCU campuses around the country has been what to make of President Obama’s efforts to create more jobs. This will indefinitely become the most critical issue heading into Election 2012. We all know that the President of the United States has to attend to hundreds of [...]