Many people in and around JSU have used the adage “where there’s smoke there’s fire” to describe the school’s situation. But in my years of covering black colleges, I’ve found that typically where there’s smoke, there politics smoldering to cloud the view of HBCU progress, and to choke the life out of those responsible for it. 

Hefty donations and scholarships benefiting historically black schools have not remedied – and at this point seemingly cannot clean up— the charring left on Bill Cosby’s burnt house of a […]

HBCUs, the people who run them, the students who attend them, and the alumni who support them, don’t want any parts of this fight, especially with a president who has positioned himself and his rhetoric as the knockout artist sent to dispatch white racial animus and black self-pity at the same damn time.

HBCUs in rural locales lose their best talent and brain trust to metropolitan areas. Save for the few who can be recruited back in later years to serve as staff and faculty members, the HBCU brain trust produced in rural and remote regions often takes talent, treasure and attention to new cities and lives which await them. 

Morgan State Professor Jared Ball on the Baltimore protests, black radicalism, and culture change.

Students protests for deplorable conditions and customer service at historically black colleges and universities is not new. Taking over the admin building is not a novel concept, particularly at Howard […]

Howard University Professor Dr. Bahiyyah Muhammad discussed her implementation of the ‘Inside/Out’ program, a blended learning experience for college students living inside and outside of prison facilities.