VIDEO – FAMU Students Explore Media Depiction of Black Women

Florida A&M University students Widson Charlemont and Javonni Hampton have released “Shades: Between the World and a Black Girl,” a documentary short exploring images, narratives and perspectives of black women as represented in mass media. 

Louisiana Gov. Elect to Keynote Southern Commencement

Only weeks before he officially takes office as the fifty-sixth Governor of the State of Louisiana, Governor-Elect John Bel Edwards will address the Fall 2015 graduating class of Southern University Baton Rouge, Friday, December 11, 2015, in the University’s F.G. Clark Activity Center, at 10:30 a.m. 

How Did Cal State Northridge Receive a Grant Intended for HBCUs?

What people haven’t heard about, and aren’t talking about can kill a business, and if billion dollar companies like McDonald’s and Walmart can advertise to keep their product front of mind for consumers who already know what they are and where they are, why wouldn’t HBCUs do the same to promote themselves to a largely unaware audience?

Alcorn State Wins Second-Straight SWAC Football Championship

A crowd of 40,352 witnessed a record-setting day by Alcorn State as the Braves prevailed 49-21 over Grambling State to claim the 2015 Southwestern Athletic Conference Football Championship, becoming the first repeat champion since the 2000-2002 Grambling State Tigers.

HBCU Digest Podcast Series – NCCU's Debra Parker and Robert Wortham

Dr. Debra O. Parker, Dean, North Carolina Central University College of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Associate Dean Dr. Robert Wortham discuss the university’s new EndZone Initiative, a plan to help stop-out students re-enroll and graduate.