Netflix released a video endorsing the participation of black actors, directors and creators in streaming service productions on Sunday night (24th June, 2018). The images were released in the BET Awards, an American television award that values black art production. In the morning of this Monday (25th June,…
Most media houses and websites have been carrying the news about the shooting at Grambling state University with happened in the early hours of Wednesday 25th October 2017. The fatal shooting left 2 young men dead. Grambling State University (GSU) is a historically black, public, coeducational…
The grammy-award winning musician Chance the rapper recently tweeted about his interest in attending a Historically Black College and University (HBCU), Clark Atlanta University. The tweet suggests that the popular musician has expressed interest in the past but this would be the first time he is making it known…
The movement by the Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the US to make their campuses LGBTQ inclusive is gaining more popularity by the day. This follows the actions taken by majority of the HBCU leaders for this purpose. The HBCU leaders are moving to adopt…
In the early morning of October 12th, 2016, as he was waiting on the sidewalk from car trouble, Andrew “Drew” Foster, an Alpha, soldier, former Alabama A&M University SGA President, and HBCU graduate, was ran over by a driver who was both under the influence of alcohol and texting…
The news that has been making the rounds on virtually all social media platforms and media outfits including The New York Times about Senator Kamala Harris is seen a threat to African American women in public service. Senator Kamala Harris who is a Howard University Alumna, a Historically…
Historically Black Colleges and Universities were created with the intention of promoting diversity in the American educational system. This is basically achieved by encouraging more black people to pursue education at any level without the fear of discrimination or unequal…
President Trump signed an executive order to focus more attention on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) on Tuesday, February 28. Although HBCUs comprise just three percent of higher education institutions in the U.S., “HBCUs contributed 19 percent of the nearly 9 percent of all bachelor’s degrees in…
Date Released: March 1, 2017
To The Morehouse College Community:
I spent the last two days in meetings at the White House and on Capitol Hill. As some of you may know, all HBCU presidents were invited to a dialogue…
