VIDEO – Hampton President Talks History-Making Lacrosse Team

Hampton University President William Harvey talks with ESPN about the launch of the school’s men’s lacrosse team, the first men’s program to compete at the NCAA Division I level, and […]

Beyoncé's 'Formation' Creates New Opportunities for HBCU Academics, Appreciation

Beyoncé gave us a lot to work with over the last 24 hours via sound, image and innuendo. Now its up to HBCUs to slay that sh*t. 

Howard Initiative Spurs Fact-Checking Focus Upon Black Media Narratives

TruthBeTold.news, an initiative out of Howard University’s Department of Media, Journalism and Film in the School of Communications, aims to help students fact-check — and, often, dispel — such claims about the African-American community.

Howard, Spelman Launch 'My Sister's Keeper' Reproductive Justice Efforts

When you hear the words reproductive justice, combined with college campus, you might think it is a move to make affordable birth control and abortion services available. But at Howard University in Washington, D.C., and Spelman College in Atlanta, thanks to the Black Women’s Health Imperative’s My Sister’s Keeper, it means so much more.

Howard Divinity Delegation Travels to Ethiopia For Return of Sacred Biblical Manuscript

Representatives from the Howard University School of Divinity (HUSD) have traveled to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to return a sacred, 14th-15th century manuscript to Debre Libanos Monastery, one of Ethiopia’s holiest sites.

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.