Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama, holds first day of class, with Booker T. Washington serving as the first teacher.
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10 Successful Black Executives Who Attended HBCUs – Atlanta Black Star
Tanasia Kenney | Atlanta Black Star Rosalind Brewer, the First Black Woman to Lead a Walmart Division Detroit native Rosalind Brewer completed her undergraduate degree at Spelman College, where she earned a bachelor’s in chemistry. For 22 years, Brewer worked at personal-care corporation Kimberly-Clarke before becoming a regional VP for Walmart in 2006. She went […]
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How crucial are historically black colleges? Just look at who’s graduated from them. – The Washington Post
From Thurgood Marshall to Oprah Winfrey, the nation’s historically black colleges and universities have educated generations of African American pioneers and professionals — doctors, lawyers, scientists, ministers, writers and thinkers.
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Trump suggests financing for historically black colleges may be unconstitutional – Politico
President Donald Trump signaled Friday that he may not implement a 25-year-old federal program that helps historically black colleges finance construction projects on their campuses, suggesting that it may run afoul of the Constitution.
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Beyoncé Announces a Scholarship Program for Female College Students to Mark Lemonade’s One-Year Anniversary – Slate
Beyoncé’s 2016 visual album Lemonade has brought the star no shortage of accolades, including two Grammys and a Peabody, and now the queen is ready to give back.
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Teaching Black Power at an HBCU and the Journey to Undo the Miseducation – Atlanta Black Star
This semester, at a historically Black college, I taught a course on African liberation movements that, in part, examined how such activism in Africa influenced Black Power across the globe.
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Questioning the Role of Contemporary Black Fraternities and Sororities in the Black Community – Atlanta Black Star
They have existed among us for more than a century. They emerged at a time when there was a particular need for unity, affirmation and self-determination given the dominant society’s denial of the inherent value of our community.
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Campus Backlash After Leaders of Black Colleges Meet With Trump – The New York Times
It was a scalding message, painted on a university campus sidewalk this week: “Welcome to the Trump plantation. Overseer: Wayne A. I. Frederick.”
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HBCUs Graduate More Poor Black Students Than White Colleges – NPR
“HBCUs remain at the forefront of opening doors that had previously been closed to so many…”
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More choice and less quality: The NAACP hold hearing on the state of education – Michigan Chronicle
In the fifth of seven public hearings, the NAACP Task Force, the Detroit branch of the NAACP and the Michigan State Conference held a hearing on Wednesday to discuss the state of quality education.
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