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Queen: CCH Pounder Celebrates the Art of Black Womanhood With an Exhibition at Xavier University
If you watch television, chances are you’ve watched CCH Pounder. Over the past 38 years, the Emmy-winning Guyanese actress—who celebrated her 65th birthday on Christmas Day—has accumulated well over 100 acting credits, including recurring roles in the Avatar franchise, ER, The Shield, Law and Order: SVU, Sons of Anarchy and, currently, NCIS: New Orleans. New…
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Howard University All Up and Through This Is Us Is the Blackest Thing That Ever Happened This Week
This second season of This Is Us has been interesting. For starters, it’s nowhere near as emotional as the first season was, for better and worse. Until last night’s episode, “Number Three,” I’d only shed tears maybe once. That ALL changed last night, though, buddy. See, after dedicating episodes to the backstory for Kevin and…
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10 Ways A Different World Lied to Us About HBCU Life
If there’s one way I know that the show was a pure work of fiction, it’s that in all the seasons of A Different World, we never saw anyone having to go to the financial aid office and act a straight donkey. There are a few experiences that truly bind those of us who graduated…
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Homecoming Survival Guide: How to Make Smart Life Choices
Editor’s note: This first appeared on VSB on Oct. 21, 2016. It’s the most wonderful time of the year! No, I’m not referring to the fast-approaching holidays; I’m talking about homecoming season! The time has come for us to take those walks down memory lane back to our alma maters and relive our glory days.…
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Dear College Choice, Who Is You and Why Come Your HBCU Rankings Don’t Make No Damn Sense?
Dear College Choice, Hi. What the fuck, B? I was recently made privy to your “Best Historically Black Colleges & Universities for 2017” list. I do not know when you dropped this list. Real talk, it doesn’t matter, but I have some very real questions about your rankings. Basically, how in the holy hell did…
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Intel Ponies Up $4,500,000 for STEM Scholarships at 6 HBCUs
As the numbers of women and people of color in Silicon Valley continue to be elucidated, it has become increasingly clear that there is a long way to go. One tech company, however, is investing in the talent pipeline while students are still in college, ostensibly to prepare them for work in the STEM (science,…
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Fla. Memorial University to Posthumously Award Bachelor’s Degree in Aeronautical Science to Trayvon Martin: Report
It’s been five years since 17-year-old Trayvon Martin’s life was stolen from him after he was gunned down while walking home from the convenience store by George Zimmerman, who was eventually acquitted of murder charges in his death. The case sparked national outrage and Trayvon, though gone, has never been forgotten. And now, this month,…
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Betsy DeVos to Speak at Bethune-Cookman University’s Commencement Ceremony
For some reason unbeknownst to many of us, historically black college Bethune-Cookman University in Florida has announced that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos will be the keynote commencement speaker next week. The news is super confusing, considering that the pro-school-choice head of education once famously flubbed that HBCUs were the true pioneers of school choice, rather…
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HBCU Students, Alumni to Rally for National Day of Action
Students, alumni and friends of America’s historically black colleges and universities are set to gather on Capitol Hill on April 27 for a National Day of Action to increase support and awareness of black institutions of higher learning. The mission of the rally is to urge the White House, members of Congress, and state and…
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Samuel L. Jackson, Spike Lee, Jeh Johnson Respond to The Root’s Morehouse Investigation
As Morehouse College’s alumni, students and faculty discover the years of obfuscation by the board of trustees revealed in The Root’s investigative piece “The War at Morehouse,” three of the college’s most distinguished and successful alumni weighed in on the revelations exposed in our probe. Academy Award-nominated actor Samuel. L Jackson (Class of ’72), former…