After years of heartbreaking financial and enrollment trouble, Cheyney University in Pennsylvania is on the verge of collapse and in danger of losing its accreditation.
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LeVar Burton Is Being Sued by a Public Broadcasting Station Over Reading Rainbow | The Root
In today’s episode of Black People Can’t Have a Damn Thing, Not Even if We Played a Major Role in Building It From the Ground Up, actor LeVar Burton is being personally sued by a Buffalo, N.Y., public broadcasting station that wants to stop him from using a Reading Rainbow catchphrase on his new podcast.
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Remembering Frederick Isadore Scott, Johns Hopkins’ First Black Undergraduate | Afro
Frederick Isadore Scott, the first African-American undergraduate to earn a degree from Johns Hopkins University, died July 15 at Johns Hopkins Hospital following complications from an infection. He was 89.
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Harvard’s incoming class is majority minority | New York Post
Minorities make up the majority of Harvard’s Class of 2021 — for the first time in the school’s 380-year history, according to reports.
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First Black woman to lead West Point’s Corps of Cadets | The Philadelphia Tribune
A Fairfax, Va. woman has become the first African-American woman to lead West Point’s Corps of Cadets, the U.S. Army announced.
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Are We Returning to Jim Crow? | The Root
When Donald Trump campaigned on the slogan “Make America Great Again,” many of us saw it for what it was—coded language for taking the mask—or the hood, as it were—off of white supremacy.
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What Parents Can Do to Nurture Good Writers | The New York Times
Sometimes when kids come to you to share what they’re writing, they’re not coming for feedback. They are coming for affirmation.
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Rapper Common Donates $10K for Supplies to Harlem School of the Arts | Atlanta Black Star
NEW YORK (AP) — Oscar and Grammy winner Common surprised a group of New York students by donating $10,000 to help their teachers buy supplies like calculators and science kits.
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Black Women Awarded More Master’s Degrees Than Black Men | Afro
Black women are being awarded Master’s degrees at a significantly higher proportion than Black men at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), a 1990-2015 National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) shows.
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Tenn. Lawmakers Seek to Strengthen Relationship with State HBCUs – Afro
Tennessee’s historically Black colleges and universities will soon have a team of advocates and an executive director in the state’s capital of Nashville.
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