Brittany Ireland
Wilberforce University
HBCU Editors
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...
Category - Editorial
William Jackson
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...
Africans Are Developing The Art Of Writing And Blogging
As an instructor in the College of Education and Urban Studies at Edward Waters College, the instructional goal is to reach students to make learning relevant, engaging, fun and helping students to apply to life not just academic lessons. There are...
Building African Bloggers And Innovators In 2017
“What should we be doing going forward?” Africans can save Africa: Arnold Ekpe at TEDxEuston There are millions of potential brother and sister bloggers in Africa, diverse people of color and culture, yearning to tell their stories, developing and...
What Happens When The Spelman Woman Is A Spel-Man?
Spelman College is a historically black college for women located in Atlanta. At least, that’s what the college’s website says. But the black college is not just home to women — quite the contrary — it’s also a place that many...
Tommy G. Meade Jr.
HBCU 101: Here’s What You Need To Know To Maximize Your Success At College
College is the best four years of your life, they say. But those four years at college can also be rough. With this in mind, Founder and CEO of HBCUBuzz.com Luke Lawal Jr., a graduate of historically black Bowie State University, offers the...
The 5 Biggest Misconceptions About HBCUs
Many think that historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) promote racism or believe that these institutions aren’t diverse — both are entirely false and stupid misconceptions about HBCUs. Those with a little to no information about...
26 Things I Learned From TEDx That Can Be Applied To HBCUs
Lessons learned from watching and attending a TEDx event need to be applied to HBCUs to provide continued development for HBCU students’. TEDTALKS and TEDx events are nationally and internationally recognized, but the presence of HBCU students is...
Recovery Still In Effect For Fathers Of Trayvon Martin And Ron Davis
On October 11 at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, The Campaign for for Black Male Achievement and the Perception Institute presented its third “Black Male Reimagined III” with an emphasis on deconstructing the the black image and identity in...
Jacinth Jones
2017 Top 10 Best HBCUs In The U.S.
Have you ever wondered how college rankings are compiled? Each rank is based on a methodology and for the Historically black Schools rankings for U.S. News & World Report Higher Education, and 80 institutes were eligible. It is very strategic in...
Delvakio Brown
Overcoming Depression — How To Beat Depression During College At An HBCU
During my five years at HBCU Central State University in Wilberforce, I had a hard time dealing with depression. According to the Oxford dictionary, depression is feelings of severe despondency and dejection. But there are lots of things you can do...
Fisk University Grad Matthew Knowles Shares 4 Secrets To Success
It is tempting to see Mathew Knowles as the creator and manager of Destiny’s Child, father to globally dominant entertainer Beyoncé and younger sister Solange, and surrogate dad to the equally famous and accomplished artist Kelly Rowland. But the...
Greek Life Scares The Crap Out Of Freshmen And Other Oblivious Students
Though hard to believe some of us really do grow up oblivious, to Greek life that is. Ask me what I knew about Greek life prior to college and I would tell you “This sorority that wears blue used to come to the Boys & Girls Club and step for us...
Sonia Montalvo
Why Don’t More Black Greeks On Campus At HBCUs Come Out As Gay?
In early 2015, I wrote about one particular Central State University student who asked the Black Greeks on campus at the school one simple but complicated question: “Why does it seem like you all discriminate against gay people?” the CSU student...
Summer Is Over, But “Beating The Drum For HBCUs” Isn’t
For close to two years now, I have been “beating the drum for HBCUs,” as former Claflin University Professor Patricia H. Koger calls it. Now, let’s fast forward to summer ‘16. I “hit the ground running” as my mother told me when I came home. Within...
An Essay By UMES Grad Antoine Cobb
I am the only child of a high school graduate and a high school dropout. Both were substance abusers the majority of their adult life – in and out of prison throughout most of my childhood. I am also a product of one the nation’s least-effective...
Nick Cannon Says He’s A Freshman At Howard University. Here’s What Every Freshman At College Should Read.
Nick Cannon has enrolled as a freshman at historically black Howard University in the nation’s capital, according to a photo Cannon shared on his personal Instagram account that shows him posing in front of a Howard University sign in his first day...
FAMU Graduate To Address Differences In Approach To Activism In New Short Film
Filmmaker Shayla Racquel has decided to spotlight a recently re-surfaced debate that has some African-American families at odds. Is there a right or wrong way to fight against injustice, or is it just a matter of opinion? Should Black Lives...
Jasmine Mosley
