HBCU Editors
William Jackson
Kyle Kidd-Buckner
For young adults moving into a career takes planning, execution, diligence and sacrifice. Technology can help in building skills that can be applied to a developing Brand and to start a career, creating a foundation that helps to extend into the...
Category - Editorial
HBCU Swag Your Marketing And Branding
Students attending HBCUs should be engaged in educational and leadership building opportunities. Students; freshmen to seniors marketing themselves and having a strong personal brand helps to set the foundation of building a career before graduation...
Why It’s Important For Historically Black Colleges To Invest In Women
HBCU women face challenges when they graduate, finding a place to allow their gifts, talents, and abilities to shine and rise. The issue maybe their lack of networking opportunities or the right opportunities and those skills that are not developed...
29 Things To Do Before Your High School Graduation – How Many Have You Done?
These suggestions are to help as graduation gets closer. Graduation, an end to an educational journey from Day Care to High School. Before this occasion parents need to make sure all the I’s are dotted and T’s crossed to make a smooth closure to a...
Why The 2017 BET Awards Should Tribute HBCUs
This past week BET and the BET Awards have been asking questions on social media regarding what they should do at the 2017 BET Awards. The @BETAwards Twitter handle has been asking questions about who should host, perform and what should happen at...
Chris Sumlin
NYT: ‘Why I Chose A Historically Black College’
New York Times writer Skylar Mitchell takes aim at historically black colleges relevancy in today’s society in an op-ed titled “Why I Chose a Historically Black College.” From Mitchell’s editorial: “A black school? But...
GSU Junior Miniya Shabazz Becomes New Member of the ESPN Family
Miniya Shabazz has been quite involved as a GSU student journalist, she’s worked as an editor of her campus newspaper ,with the university’s media bureau and local publication, and she’s just warming up...
E'Vonne Gipson
Southern University Grad Andrea Brew Writes Book, ‘Twas the Night Before Bayou Classic
SHORT BOOK DESCRIPTION: It is the eve of the Bayou Classic, and a family of Southern University fans are filled with anticipation and blue-and-gold spirit. Find out what happens when an unexpected visitor arrives at their door. “Wait, is that...
EdCamp – An Opportunity for HBCUs to Participate and Contribute
The exposure to the collaboration with educators with years of experience is important for new educators and pre-service educators that attend HBCUs choosing a career in education. Becoming a teacher is not an easy decision, knowing you have the...
Southern Student Remi Hill Fights Battles With Creativity And A Canvas
Remi Hill doesn’t remember the exact age she began drawing, but her mother told her she has been quite artistic since age 3. As she got older, she fell deeper and deeper in love with art and began to draw cartoons a lot during her free time. “I...
To All My HBCU Alums, Here’s Why We Should Support BET’s ‘The Quad’
On February 1, BET premiered a new drama series entitled The Quad. The program executively produced by the likes of Rob Hardy, Felicia D. Henderson, and Charles Holland was met with much anticipation during its first night on BET. With the...
The Hidden Magic In Children Of Color
How many girls of color are super smart in mathematics, how many want to be engineers, how many girls of color want to be doctors and lawyers, scientists and pilots? How many want to be veterinarians and writers like Breyonna Fox a sophomore...
Here’s Everything You Need To Know About Graduating From College Debt-Free
Yesterday, I did a Facebook Live interview with Kevin Y. Brown, author of 10 Ways Anyone Can Graduate From College Debt-Free and founder of Debt-Free College Academy, an online course and website. (Brown also attended Clark Atlanta University and...
There Are More Hidden Figures Around Us
Taylor Richardson, attending “Hidden Figures” premiere at the White House 2016 Dedicated to the past Hidden Figures that allowed girls and boys to embrace STEM – STEAM – STREAM and grasp new opportunities to fulfill dreams from the depths of the sea...
21 Essential Blogging Tips For HBCU Students
What does it take to be a blogger and social media influencer? The ability to create content and share on social media is a process to influence thinking, decisions, and actions of readers. To develop a personal brand that exemplifies the spirit of...
HBCU True Life: I Don’t Know What I’m Doing After College And That’s Okay
Well, it’s that time of the year again. It’s the end of another break, and the Spring semester is drawing nigh. Usually, I’m very excited for the start of a new semester. During this time, I normally wake up every morning counting...
2017 – The Year To Blog And Develop Content
Digital content creation is prevalent on the web, an increase in blogging, microblogging, podcasting and other forms of digital media is expanding across the Internet. Content creators are global, generational and smart. The evolution of blogging...
HBCUs Must Inspire The Next Generation Of Bloggers
The growth of blogging has transformed beyond the basics of text, there is now video blogging, micro blogging, podcasting and a host of other platforms and tools to share diverse and dynamic content. The importance of writing can never be...
