She immortalized our former forever first lady for the National Portrait Gallery, and now, portraitist Amy Sherald is…
Thanks to a massive $30 million donation from a trustee, Spelman just recorded its largest single gift from a living…
The midterm elections are coming in November, and this vote comes at a critical point in our nation’s history. After…
When We All Vote, the non-profit, non-partisan voting initiative started by Michelle Obama, is gearing up for its…
Join The Root and special guests Janelle Monáe and Angela Rye as we partner up with Michelle Obama’s When We All Vote…
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Nayaa Martinique and her family took the eight-hour drive from Indianapolis to Atlanta so the college freshman could…
Vice dropped a video on Wednesday about a white student named Tiago who just finished his freshman year at Morehouse…
Spelman College is undoubtedly one of the finest HBCUs—because of academics, yes, but also because it remains ahead of…
“Create your own committees, build your own institutions, give your friends awards, award yourself, and be the gold you…
Spelman senior Amber Warren says she got the first hateful note at the announcement of Pride Week on campus.
A few weeks back, I attended a talk at Howard University in which my fiancee was guest-teaching a class on public…
Hi, my name is Panama Jackson, and I’m addicted to Target. I don’t know how it happened. Look—walking into Target to…
At the age of 3, I’m not sure if I knew about college or Georgia, but I knew that my dad had returned from his business…
Two decades ago, Beverly Daniel Tatum posed a question to the world in the book Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting…
As noted writer and transgender advocate Raquel Willis once declared, trans women are women. And so it follows that…
Two young, ambitious women of Spelman College died in two separate accidents last week, one of which has seen another…
Yesterday, April 11th, was Spelman College’s Founder’s Day. On April 11th, 1881, the beginnings of what has become a…
Johnnetta Betsch Cole, director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art, turned 80 years old Wednesday,…
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