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Hampton U Professor Wins $1,000,000 in Va. Scratch-Off Game
A Hampton University professor and dean just hit the jackpot in a scratch-off game worth a million bucks. Calvin Lowe, dean of Hampton’s School of Science, won the top prize of the Gold Bar Bonanza scratch-off, the first-ever million-dollar prize to be claimed. HBCU Buzz reports that after examining the ticket with a magnifying glass,…
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Spelman College Announces $25,000 Scholarships for LGBTQ Advocacy at HBCUs
Spelman College, one of the most esteemed HBCUs in the country, this week announced a new scholarship program for its students, those who advocate for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning issues. The Levi Watkins Jr. Scholars Program “will call attention to the importance of making visible the courageous and significant work of LGBTQ…
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Bethune-Cookman President to Resign Amid Financial Woes
Bethune-Cookman University has announced that President Edison Jackson will resign almost a year before his contract ends. The trustee board of the private HBCU, located in Daytona Beach, Fla., accepted his early retirement but has not announced the terms or specific date of his departure, saying only that it will be announced at a later…
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The 2017 Miss USA Is a Proud, Black HBCU Graduate, and She’s Also Problematic as Hell
For the second consecutive year, Miss District of Columbia, a black woman and HBCU graduate, has been crowned Miss USA. Outgoing 2016 Miss USA Deshauna Barber crowned her fellow Washington, D.C., resident, Kára McCullough, 25, Sunday night in Las Vegas. McCullough is a chemist working for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Two black women were…
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Bethune-Cookman President Threatens to Withhold Students’ Degrees Amid Loud Boos for Betsy DeVos
The NAACP Florida State Conference was right. As Bethune-Cookman University graduates loudly booed U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos during her remarks at the school’s commencement ceremony Wednesday morning, university President Edison Jackson threatened to withhold their degrees. “If this behavior continues,” Jackson said angrily as DeVos uncomfortably stood beside him with a smile frozen on…
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Trump Suggests Certain Federal Financing for HBCUs May Be Unconstitutional
Oh, Omarosa, what will you now tout as your justification for aligning with our anti-black commander in chief? We refer, of course, to the fact that the White House director of communications for the Office of Public Liaison has pumped up Donald Trump’s support of HBCUs with silly photo ops that really amount to nothing…
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Memphis, Tenn., High School Students Receive $80,000,000 in Scholarship Offers
Students at Whitehaven High School in Memphis, Tenn., have 80 million reasons to be proud of their academic endeavors because its graduating class has secured more than $80 million in scholarships. Last week the students were honored at their Academic Signing Day, but one student took home the largest piece of the scholarship pie, according…
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Morehouse Completely Dismantles Leadership Following Board Controversy
Little more than a week after The Root’s investigative piece “The War at Morehouse” revealed the yearslong tension at the famed historically black institution, Morehouse College’s board of trustees announced that the chairman of the board, all of its officers and the college’s president will step down. In a letter to the entire Morehouse community…
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The Quad’s Writers’ Room Addresses Criticism
When it comes to portraying the black college experience on television or on the silver screen, most people will cite School Daze and A Different World as points of reference. Both of these put a fictional spin on life at an HBCU, and were way ahead of their time when it came to touching on…
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Morehouse College President: We Got Played
There is an old African proverb that has been passed down from the ancestors through generations of black people that goes like this: “Never trust anyone who lets people put their feet on the couch.” After meeting with the Trump administration for two days and reviewing Cheddar Bob’s executive order on HBCUs, Morehouse College President…