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.

FAMU Alumni Seeking More Representation on Board of Trustees

At both the University of Florida and Florida State University, alumni have ten of the 11 appointed seats on the respective Boards of Trustees. But FAMU alumni only have three of the 11 appointed seats on their alma mater’s Board of Trustees (BOT), down from six last year.

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.