— Nikole Hannah-Jones, New York Times Magazine In the history of the United States, black Americans were the only group for whom it was ever illegal to learn to read or write. And so when emancipation finally came, schools and colleges were some of the first institutions that the freed people clamored to build. Black […]
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Report: Warriors’ Stephen Curry Starting Golf Team at Howard University | Bleacher Report
TYLER CONWAY, Bleacher Report Jonathan Devich/Getty Images. Featured Image [dropcap]Stephen[/dropcap] Curry has already taken his love of golf to television. Now he’s doing the same at Howard University. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The Golden State Warriors star will reportedly launch a golf program at Howard during a press conference Monday, per Casey Bannon of The Golfer’s Journal. […]
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The App at the Heart of the Movement to End Affirmative Action | The Atlantic
“WeChat is a monster. There’s nothing like it on Earth.”
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HBCUs Are Producing a New Generation of Young Women | AFRO
Today, public HBCUs continue to produce talent for the 21st Century with a disproportionate number being young women.
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Two Colleges Bound by History Are Roiled by the #MeToo Moment | The New York Times
ATLANTA — The fliers appeared suddenly on a crisp morning in early November. They were scattered among golden leaves on the grounds of Spelman and Morehouse, the side-by-side women’s and men’s colleges that are two of the country’s most celebrated historically black schools.
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New list highlights nation’s most affordable HBCUs | New York Amsterdam News
Black college database The Hundred-Seven has published a list of public Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) that are recognized for their affordability.
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Black Women Awarded More Master’s Degrees Than Black Men | Afro
Black women are being awarded Master’s degrees at a significantly higher proportion than Black men at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), a 1990-2015 National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) shows.
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Tenn. Lawmakers Seek to Strengthen Relationship with State HBCUs – Afro
Tennessee’s historically Black colleges and universities will soon have a team of advocates and an executive director in the state’s capital of Nashville.
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This Day in Black History: July 4, 1881 – BET
Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama, holds first day of class, with Booker T. Washington serving as the first teacher.
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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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