HBCU Buzz Inc.

The Virginia Union University football team will graduate a record number 18 players when the school hosts its Commencement on Saturday, May 11 in Richmond, Va. The total amount of graduates this year doubles the amount of nine the football team had last year. After a .500 season during its 2012-2013 football schedule, the Virginia Union Panthers hope to have better overall [...]

So the Henrico County School Board is soliciting names for “a west area elementary school” to open next year? Consider this a nomination. How about naming that new school on Pouncey Tract Road in honor of Dr. William Ferguson Reid? Reid, who has lived on Francistown Road in western Henrico since 1965, remains a seminal figure in Virginia history — [...]

The field has narrowed for potential  football fields that could be training sites for the Washington Redskins. For now it looks like Virginia Union University has shaped up as a top contender for the job. CBS 6 has learned from a source close to the selection process that Redskins team officials will be visiting the VUU campus Sunday to tour [...]

Goldin Harrison, better known as Polo Rogers, has released his latest project, The Adventures of Polo Rogers. A graduate of Virginia Union University, Polo Rogers has already made a name for himself after helping to found the hip hop collective C.O.N.T.R.O.L. To find out more about Polo Rogers and the  C.O.N.T.R.O.L. movement, check out The Adventures of Polo Rogers Parts [...]

Dave Robbins, the legendary men’s basketball coach at Virginia Union University for 30 years, has been named for induction in the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. Robbins will be inducted on Sunday, November 18, at the Midland Theatre in Kansas City. As the first white coach in the history of the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA), which consists of [...]

Detroit Pistons Forward/Center Ben Wallace has announced that he will retire after the 2011-2012 NBA season. “It takes a special type of guy to stay at something long enough to make it to this level,” Wallace said. “A lot of times you’re being told that you’re too this, you’re too that, you can’t do this, you can’t do that.”   [...]

Seventy years later, Allix B. James can recount in humiliating detail his first 24 hours in Richmond. James came to Virginia Union University as a student in 1942 and went on to be its president. He would become the first African-American to serve as president of the Virginia Board of Education and as chairman of the Richmond Planning Commission. And [...]

Virginia Union University’s Danielle Ferguson scored 20 points to lead the Lady Panthers to a 60-44 win over Elizabeth City State University in a showdown of the two teams who were tied for first place in the CIAA Northern Division, played on Saturday, February 4, in Barco-Stevens Hall in Richmond, Va. The win gives VUU sole possession of first place [...]

“Go girl, go girl, go girl! Ambition!” This eight letter word has been transformed over the past year by Maybach Music Group artist Wale. The DC native has become extremely popular over the past two years with the release of several mixtapes. One of Wale’s most popular songs is “The Ambitious Girl”,  quoted in the opening of the article. If [...]

Renowned activist and write Kevin Powell will be setting foot on the campus of Virginia Union University this Thursday, February 2 at 11:00 A.M. He will be speaking on the topic “Barack Obama, Hiphop, Leadership, and the American Dream” in the historic Coburn Hall. The event is presented by Virginia Union’s Office of Counseling Services, Office of Student Activites, and the School [...]

Virginia Union University, the historically Black educational institution in Richmond, received a $2 million gift from Robert J. Brown, founder, chair, and CEO of B&C Associates, a consulting, research, and pubic relations firm based in High Point, North Carolina. Brown attended Virginia Union for one year but was forced to leave for family reasons. The $2 million gift is the [...]

Richmond, VA- Once again, two CIAA  schools battled on one of the biggest stages in HBCU Basketball. Once again, the result was the same, as it has been since 2002. The Virginia Union Panthers defeated the Virginia State Trojans, 63-61 at the 17th annual Freedom Classic. The victory at the Freedom Classic was the 23rd consecutive win for the VUU Panthers over [...]

The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) announces the finalists for the fourth annual CIAA Division of the highly regarded Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award program. An acronym for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School®, the award program focuses on the total student-athlete and encourages those leaders to use their platform in athletics to make a positive impact on their [...]

Baltimore, Md. — Baltimore Reads elected Elijah A. Cheek and Carla A. Nelson to its board of directors. Each will serve a three-year term. Mr. Cheek works for Kaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic States as its health plan facility operations manager for the North Baltimore region. Prior to joining Kaiser Permanente in 2010, Mr. Cheek worked for Johns Hopkins Hospital,  Boston Medical Center,  [...]

Out of the shadows of the Civil War, historically black colleges and universities were created to make educational advancements and bring order to the imbalance in equality in America for freed slaves in the aftermath of Reconstruction. In the face of racism and segregation, African Americans dealt with America’s rejection and detest of them into institutions of higher education created [...]

Gallery – Big Apple Classic 2011 Madison Square Garden

NEW YORK— The battle of the Virginia HBCUs has been decided. Damion Harris scored 17 points, Wesley Simmons scored 13 points and pulled down a team high 9 rebounds as the Virginia Union University Panthers defeated the Virginia State University Trojans 67-54 at the Big Apple Classic in the historic Madison Square Garden. The two CIAA rivals have been battling [...]

The Ties That Bind: Alpha Phi Alpha & Delta Sigma Theta There are many connections and similarities found in the ice-cold brothers of A Phi A and the devastating divas of DST. But on a particular HBCU, the ties that bind these two organizations is stronger than most. December 4: A special day to the brothers of the Gamma Chapter of [...]