On Thursday, Oct. 26, The Quad at Santa Monica College’s main campus was a scene of joyous activity and conversation. There was impromptu dancing to music played by a live deejay and games of sandbag toss, Ping-Pong, and Jenga on the lush grass.
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Posted Thursday, November 2nd 2023 at 4:42PM
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BLACK ENTERPRISE, the premier Black-owned digital media brand dedicated to providing business, investment, and wealth-building resources for African Americans, is proud to announce the return of the 8th Annual BE Smart Hackathon, hosted by American A ...
Posted Thursday, November 2nd 2023 at 2:58PM
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As part of PepsiCo’s ongoing efforts to support and elevate Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), the company is announcing $250,000 in grants towards tackling food insecurity at HBCU campuses, as the student attendance rates at these ...
Posted Thursday, November 2nd 2023 at 12:46PM
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Microsoft has appointed a new leader to take charge of the future of one of the top brands it owns.
Following Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard, the tech giant named Sarah Bond as president of Xbox, The Verge reports. Alongside Bond, ...
Posted Thursday, November 2nd 2023 at 12:34PM
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In January of 2022, Morgan State University President David K. Wilson unveiled a bold new 10-year strategic plan, Transformation Morgan 2030: Leading the Future, with a key component of its first goal being to increase overall enrollment to 10,000 st ...
Posted Thursday, November 2nd 2023 at 11:47AM
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Husband and wife Derrick and Ramunda Young are the founders of Mahogany Books, two popular Black-owned bookstores in the Washington DC metro area. Together with their 16-year-old daughter, Mahogany, they are helping to meet the literary needs of read ...
Posted Thursday, November 2nd 2023 at 11:43AM
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TUSKEGEE, AL — Tuskegee University alumnus Kenneth L. Parker '94 has been appointed to the Attorney General's Advisory Committee (AGAC) by U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. Mr. Parker is a distinguished graduate of Tuskegee University and cur ...
Posted Thursday, November 2nd 2023 at 10:33AM
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Howard University, the renowned historically Black college in Northwest, D.C., finds itself in esteemed company alongside institutions such as the Abbey Road Institute in London, the Berklee College of Music in Boston and Spain, and the Liverpool Ins ...
Posted Wednesday, November 1st 2023 at 5:48PM
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North Carolina A&T is celebrating homecoming this week, but an act of vandalism is making headlines for a less positive reason.
One of the school’s entrances’ was spray painted over with the words “Free Congo” and “F**k 12.”
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Posted Wednesday, November 1st 2023 at 3:35PM
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The latest rankings for the ESPN Band of The Year HBCU band championship are in and North Carolina A&T has made the leap to no. 1.
The North Carolina A&T Blue and Gold Marching Machine jumped up from no. 2 to no. 1, overtaking the Southern Univer ...
Posted Wednesday, November 1st 2023 at 1:23PM
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The lawsuit says poor state investment has disadvantaged Black students at these institutions and subjected them to de facto segregation.
For decades, state governments have unevenly funded some historically Black institutions by not matching fede ...
Posted Wednesday, November 1st 2023 at 10:47AM
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The new College of Business at Coppin State University has four stories of classrooms, lecture space, student study areas, data labs and a constant stock market ticker tape with a colorful neon glow.
The new $45.8 million academic center on the ca ...
Posted Tuesday, October 31st 2023 at 4:33PM
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All across the country, U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds have been performing flyovers to honor the workers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. One of the team's newest members is a Howard University graduate and the first black, female office ...
Posted Tuesday, October 31st 2023 at 2:23PM
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Living up to its state designation as “a special purpose institution of higher education for urban programming,” Texas Southern University (TSU) is set to launch a new institute aimed at improving urban realities. The historic Third Ward HBCU, with t ...
Posted Tuesday, October 31st 2023 at 2:23PM
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Hockey. Hockey? Not baseball? Not soccer? Hockey?!?
For a second, Howard Gentry allowed himself to be surprised upon learning that Tennessee State University would be the first Historically Black College and University to have a hockey program.
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Posted Monday, October 30th 2023 at 2:45PM
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