Rape and Kidnapping Charges for Morehouse Athletes
ATLANTA -- Three Morehouse College athletes and another student have been accused of rape and other charges.
These stem from two alleged assaults in March and...
Mount Zion AME – 7th Church To Burn in South Carolina Since Charleston Shooting
(USA TODAY) Fire destroyed Mount Zion AME church in Greeleyville, SC for the second time. The church first burned in 1995 when it was...
Tammy Hamlet, FAMU events director arrested on charges of travel expense, per diem fraud
Tammy Hamlet, Florida A&M University’s director of university events, has been charged with eight misdemeanor counts of fraudulently claiming per diem and travel expenses.
Hamlet,...
Norfolk State’s Athletic Department Stripped of 2011 MEAC Football Title & Placed on Two...
Norfolk State’s athletic department will spend two years on probation for violations in the following sports, football, men’s and women’s track, men’s and women’s...
Barber Scotia to Close For Spring Semester
CONCORD - Barber-Scotia College has closed its doors for the spring semester to prepare for an uncertain future.
The college’s Board of Trustees sent a...
Report: White Supremacist Threatens O.J. Simpson’s Life
The Root
Disgraced NFL running back OJ Simpson used to make astonishing cuts on the football field, but cutting a jailhouse medication line may have...
Howard University Exec used N-word to describe top workers
Former Howard University Vice President for Human Resources James Jones referred himself and others as "H.N.I.C.," or "Head Nigger in Charge" and now he...
Huston-Tillotson Grad, Teacher Breaion King Brutally Arrested ‘For No Reason Whatsoever’
A patrol car video from a June 2015 incident showing a Black elementary teacher in Austin violently arrested by a white police officer during...
‘Blood, Sweat And Heels’ Star And Howard University Grad, Daisy Lewellyn, Loses Battle To...
Daisy Lewellyn, author and cast member of Blood, Sweat & Heels, and also a Howard University graduate, has sadly lost her battle to cancer at...
Sandra Bland’s Family Seeks Answers In Her Death
The prospect of a becoming a student ambassador at her alma mater, however, began to unravel one week ago. Bland was arrested July 10,...
FAMU Faces 1-yr Accreditation Probation Period
Florida A&M University will be placed on one year of probation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
Official word from accrediting body SACS...
Four AAMU Students Arrested in Weekend Shooting
Four Alabama A & M students, three of them A&M football players, have been arrested for allegedly being involved in a shooting at Normal...
Central State University Grad Omarosa: DeVos Said Black Students Don’t Have ‘Capacity To Understand’...
Stating that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos once said students who booed her at a historically black college lacked the “capacity to understand” what the...
Hampton Alum Among 3 American Friends Found Dead in Mexico City Airbnb
The bodies of three American friends were found in an Airbnb they rented in Mexico to celebrate the Day of the Dead after apparent carbon monoxide poisoning, Mexico City prosecutors said.
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity suspended from Johnson C. Smith University
Recently, the Alpha Omicron chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. seated of Johnson C. Smith University were suspended for acts that disobeyed the...
Hampton Alum & Former NAACP President Ed Tomlin Dies at 63
Ed Tomlin, a longtime civil rights activist and former president of the Marion County NAACP, died suddenly on Monday. He was 63.
Tomlin, a native...
Six HBCU Students Sue State of Florida Over Underfunding and Discriminatory Practices
On Thursday a class action lawsuit was filed by six Florida A&M University students against the state of Florida alleging decades of discriminatory underfunding of the...
Fayetteville civil rights activist Lula Crenshaw Dies
Fayetteville civil rights activist who led the development of the city's Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park died Wednesday morning.
Lula Gray Crenshaw died at...
