With more than two million households tuned into the inaugural Celebration Bowl between North Carolina A&T and Alcorn State last month, the newly-established black college football championship game took to Twitter to take a few journalists to task about the value of the game, and its participating teams.
Clark Atlanta Receives $494,000 Curriculum Reform, Research Grant
Clark Atlanta University (CAU) President Ronald A. Johnson today announced the receipt of $494,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund strategic activities in support of the University’s new focus on undergraduate research
Texas Southern Faculty, Alumni Take Top Honors at National Black Educators Conference
A professor and a doctoral graduate from the TSU College of Education received awards from the 2015 National Alliance of Black School Educators (NABSE) in Washington, D.C.
Tuskegee Alumni Family Donates $600,000 to University
An alumni family has gifted $600,000 to Tuskegee University, primarily to bring two historic buildings back online as living-learning facilities for Tuskegee students.
Jackson State Students Develop Technology to Reduce Diabetes-Related Amputations
Engineering students at Jackson State University have designed a “smart mat” that gauges foot temperature of diabetics to help thwart the danger of lower extremity amputations – particularly in Mississippi, where the risk is greater, according to the CDC.
Five Best Ways to Recruit a High School Senior to an HBCU
Over the next three months, a majority of high school seniors throughout the country will be making choices about where they will attend college in the fall. And if you consider yourself to be a stakeholder or influencer in their decision, and you want to them to consider an HBCU, there’s five steps you should take to position black colleges as a viable option for the near future.
NPR Examines 'Life After Howard'
The latest episode of NPR’s “The Howard Project” examines the professional and personal lives of four recent Howard University graduates.
Hampton Alum Sashi Brown Named Cleveland Browns Executive Vice-President
Sashi Brown has been named the Browns’ executive vice president of football operations and will be a main part of the team’s four-person committee to find a new head coach.
Dillard Alumna is First New Orleans Homicide Victim of 2016
According to a WDSU report, the woman had recently graduated from Dillard University with a degree in biology. Family members told WDSU that the victim is Myeisha McDaniels.
Howard Alumna, Acclaimed Psychiatrist Frances Cress Welsing Dies
Frances Cress Welsing, the Black author and psychiatrist whose 1991 work The Isis Papers; The Keys to the Colors introduced the world to the “melanin theory” and the “neuroses” of white supremacy, has died.
She was 80-years-old.
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