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FAMU and Tennessee State Join HBCUsOnline Roster

HBCUsOnline, an online education services company, has partnered with Florida A & M University and Tennessee State University.

Oprah’s Generosity Spurs Past Morehouse Scholarship Recipients to Pledge New Scholarship Funding

Recalling the impact of the Oprah Winfrey scholarships they received while at Morehouse College, the “Sons of Oprah,” as they are known, have announced they are pledging more than $300,000 to help educate deserving Morehouse students.

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Charleston Can Lay a Claim to First Memorial Day

Yale University historian David Blight contends that a May 1, 1865 gathering in Charleston gives the South Carolina city justification to claim the first Memorial Day observance honoring the dead from the Civil War.

Charleston during Civil War

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African Burial Ground to Be Restored in Richmond, Va.

Virginia Commonwealth University’s Board of Visitors on Friday approved the transfer of the African Burial Ground to the city, clearing the way for asphalt and gravel to be removed from the site in Richmond’s historic Shockoe Bottom.

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Scholar Khalil Gibran Muhammad to Take Reins at Schomburg Center

Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, an assistant professor of history at Indiana University, is poised to take the helm of the world’s leading repository of the global Black experience when he becomes director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Khalil Muhammad

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SUNO/UNO Merger Scrapped for Lack of Support

House Speaker Jim Tucker, sponsor of the legislation, said that he doesn’t have the two-thirds support needed for passage and doesn’t expect to be able to get the votes this legislative session.

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Work of Chinese American Activist Documented in New Book

Dr. Scott Kurashige spent more than 10 years collecting and editing activist Grace Lee Boggs’ speeches and newspaper articles into The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century.

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Town Hall Meeting: Shortage of Black Male Teachers Looms as Many Choose High-Paying Professions

Award-winning teachers told inspirational stories during a U.S. Education Department TEACH campaign forum to get more college students, particularly those from diverse backgrounds, to join the ranks of American educators.

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First Lady Welcomed at Spelman College

First Lady Michelle Obama was welcomed with thunderous cheers and told the 550 students graduating from historically Black Spelman College that no matter where they go, they need to bring the school’s ideals to the world.

Leadership & Policy

Tornado No Match for New Shaw University President

It’s been an unusual spring for Shaw University and new president Irma McClaurin as efforts have gotten underway to get the campus repaired from tornado damage.

Dr. Irma McClaurin was named president of Shaw University on Thursday.

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Sixty Years Later, Black Educator Gets Recognition at University of Arkansas Graduation

In response to an appeal undertaken by the daughter of Arkansas civil rights activist Lothaire Scott Green, the activist’s pioneering academic accomplishment will be publically celebrated during the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville campus commencement on Saturday.

Charles Reed Jr.

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Tennessee Appeals Proposed Sale of Fisk University’s O’Keeffe Art

Tennessee’s attorney general is appealing a decision that will allow Fisk University to sell a portion of an art collection donated to the school by the late painter Georgia O’Keeffe.

‘The Radiator Building—Night, New York’ by Georgia O’Keeffe is part of the Fisk University art collection.

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