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Hope Wiseman, a 25-year-old Spelman graduate, plans to open a dispensary called Mary and Main’s in Capital Heights this winter. As a co-founder of Compassionate Herbal Alternative, she’s the youngest Black woman in the...
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#HUSitIn: How the Home of a Financial Aid Scandal Became a Safe Haven for Howard University Students
Fifty years ago, solidarity between Howard University students brought national attention to the class of 1968 due to university’s failure to include student input and in 2018, nothing has changed. Since Thursday, at...
Jacinth Jones
Education Department Forgives $322 Million In Loans to Help HBCUs Recover From Hurricanes
The U.S. Education Department is granting full forgiveness of $322 million in loans made to four historically black colleges and universities that suffered damage after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck the Gulf Coast...
Howard University Sit-in Stretches On As Students Keep Up Demands
Students at Howard University, a historically black university in Washington, D.C., are entering the fourth day of their sit-in as they negotiate their demands with the university involving the handling of financial aid...
Tyrone Earns So-Called ‘Finesse King’ Title After Scamming $429K From Howard University
Shortly after a (now deleted) report leaked that officials at Howard University allegedly stole nearly $1 million from the university’s financial aid office, one former student employee was dragged by Black Twitter into...
Six Howard University Employees Fired For Misappropriating Financial Aid
Six Howard University employees were fired last year after an internal investigation found the financial aid office had misappropriated university-based grants to some university employees, the school’s president...
Huff Post: “There’s Finally A Museum Devoted To Telling The Story Of HBCUs”
The first museum devoted to honoring and documenting historically black colleges and universities has opened its doors in Washington, D.C. The HBCU Museum, located on Georgia Avenue, opened March 9, and it’s been...
Hampton University Student Crowned Mister Black North Carolina
North Carolina now has a new Mister Black North Carolina, Spencer McKan Heath III. This 20-yr-old Hampton University Junior is a Strategic Communications major with a double minor in Leadership Studies/Military Science...
Delvakio Brown
Morehouse Grad Releases Book Series ‘This Thing Called’ To Help Prospective Students Navigate Life At The Nation’s 107 HBCUs
Morehouse College graduate Christopher Sumlin recently released his new book “This Thing Called Life” about helping prospective students attending college with navigating life at a historically black college...
Tommy G. Meade Jr.
Lyft To Take The Bipartisan HBCU Caucus Partnership Challenge
Washington, D.C.—Today, during the first HBCU STEAM Day of Action, Congresswoman Alma S. Adams (D-NC) and Congressman Bradley Byrne (R-AL), co-chairs of the Bipartisan Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU)...
HBCU Settlement Pending, But Its Not Enough
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Historically Black colleges and universities in Maryland would receive up to $56.9 million annually under legislation, sponsors say, that would restore years of underfunding and program duplication...
Lincoln University Of Missouri Announces Its Newest President
After a six-month search, Lincoln University has named Dr. Jerald Jones Woolfolk as their 20th President. The position is currently held by Interim President, Micheal A. Middleton who was brought in after Dr. Kevin...
Maya Brown-Edwards
Albert Einstein Went To An HBCU
Although I didn’t attend an historically black college, I’ve always been proud to know that they existed even before the end of American slavery. The fact that institutions of learning were established with the express...
Howard University Students Rebuild, Mentor In Puerto Rico For Alternative Spring Break
By Tatyana Hopkins (NNPA Newswire Special Correspondent) ARECIBO, Puerto Rico—When Howard University student Jasmine Stevens fled New Orleans in 2005 to avoid Hurricane Katrina, she left with just enough clothes for two...
FAMU Soon To Be The First HBCU With Accredited Police Department
A team of assessors from the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators will arrive on FAMU’s campus on March 25. Team members will be here to examine all aspects of the Florida A&M...
Howard University Community Mourns The Death Of Recent Howard Grad Robert Lawrence
Back in January, friends, and family of the bison community took to social media to talk about reports of Robert Lawrence, a recent Howard University graduate, who was missing. Police from the 114th Precinct in Astoria...
The Mutiny At Hampton University
Students at one of America’s top HBCUs are protesting a long list of problems faced by students at the school, including sexual assault, safety, food and the lack of maintenance of campus facilities. The long-simmering...
