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Bennett College President Gives Heartwarming Thanks After Donors Give $8.2 Million to Save School
After facing financial issues that threatened its status as an accredited school, Bennett College may be saved following a strong social media push for its fundraising campaign. A Monday tweet from the North Carolina school’s official account confirmed that they had raised $8.2 million, far surpassing the $5 million fundraising goal. The #StandWithBennett campaign got…
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Black Billionaire Robert F. Smith Donates $1.5 Million to Morehouse College
While it’s no secret that HBCU’s face significant disadvantages in funding and endowments, it’s always great to see wealthy black men and women invest in our next generation of leaders and difference makers when afforded the opportunity to do so. To that point, Morehouse College announced that it’s received a $1.5 million donation from Robert…
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Spelman Receives One of the Largest Single Donations to an HBCU in History
Thanks to a massive $30 million donation from a trustee, Spelman just recorded its largest single gift from a living donor. The donation—among the highest given to any historically black college or university—will go toward the private women’s college’s new Center for Innovation and the Arts. As the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports, the donation was made…
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Ray J Is Going to Philander Smith College. Homecoming Finna Be Lit!
Ray J is going to college, y’all. And while that sounds like the name of a new reality show helmed by Mona Scott-Young, it’s an actual factual true statement. According to his Instagram account, Ray J, real name Willie Ray Norwood, has decided to enroll at Philander Smith College, a historically black college located in…
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Did 2 White Fraternities Go Too Far Dissing an HBCU? [Corrected]
After a historic weekend where one of the country’s perennial football powerhouses welcomed a nearby historically black university, African American alumni from both colleges are incensed by viral pictures showing white fraternity houses draped in signs that are insensitive at best and racist at worst, disparaging the nearby HBCU. I believe it was the indomitable…
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'Not Financially Enrolled': The Crisis at Clark Atlanta University
The night before leaving for college, Malana Wells was excited. Malana Wells was thrilled about leaving her hometown in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, to study in the Black Mecca of Atlanta. She was eager to become a student at a historically black university. As a 2018 high school graduate, Malana was even enthusiastic about…
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North Carolina Teen Accepted to 113 Colleges and Awarded $4.5 Million in Scholarships Accepts Full Ride to HBCU
When you hear stories about black high school seniors getting into the colleges of their dreams, they’re usually touting Ivy League schools. But Greensboro, N.C., high school senior Jasmine Harrison, who was accepted at 113 colleges and awarded $4.5 million in scholarships, is taking her talents to Bennett College on a full ride to study…
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Student at Center of Howard University Financial Scandal Speaks Out Amid Campus Protests
As students at Howard University enter the second day of campuswide protests, the university’s board of trustees issued a statement moments before the immaculately dressed law student who has become a symbol of the administration’s mismanagement appeared with journalist Roland Martin and a very luxurious house plant to clear his name while everyone involved gulped…
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Tell Them We Are Rising Brings the 1st Documentary on Our Nation’s HBCUs to PBS
Filmmaker Stanley Nelson, who brought the story of a revolution to the screen with The Black Panthers: Vanguard of a Revolution, has once again encapsulated an enormous piece of black history with the first documentary that focuses on the history of our nation’s HBCUs. Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and…