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Ida B. Wells Wins Posthumous Pulitzer Prize Special Citation

Ida B. Wells received a posthumous Pulitzer Prize citation on Monday for her “courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching,” announced the Pulitzer Prize board on Monday. The citation comes with a bequest by the Pulitzer Prize board of at least $50,000 in support of her […]

HBCUs to Host National Virtual Commencement Ceremony

After having conversations with seniors, Dr. Michael J. Sorrell, president of Paul Quinn College, recognized that many were upset about not being able to walk at graduation due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.Believing that students at other historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) shared a similar sentiment, Sorrell planned a virtual commencement ceremony to acknowledge the Class of 2020’s achievements.

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D.C. to Financially Support Howard University’s New Teaching Hospital

Howard University and the Washington D.C. Mayor’s office last week announced a partnership under which the district will financially support a new teaching hospital at the university, toward the larger goal of building a citywide healthcare network that will serve residents in all communities. The district is going to provide Howard and a partner a […]

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Amid COVID-19, Doubling Pell Grants is the Next Urgent Need for HBCUs, Says UNCF

The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) is soon going to pitch for doubling Pell Grants so Black and other minority students consider attending college an attractive option despite the widespread economic havoc caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

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‘More Rivers to Cross’ for Penn State to Improve Status of Black Faculty

Penn State University still has “more rivers to cross” to improve the status of its Black faculty, according to a recent report by two of its professors who spent more than eight months researching the subject in an effort to highlight diversity issues at the institution.

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Jackson State University Counsels Local Small Businesses Impacted By COVID-19

Jackson State University’s Small Business Development Center is working with local small businesses impacted by the pandemic.

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First-Year Students at Edward Waters College to Receive Laptops

Starting in the fall, first-year students at the historically Black Edward Waters College (EWC) will receive personal Chromebook laptop computers, in a new partnership between EWC and the Follett Higher Education Group, the college said in a statement. The collaboration, called the EWC/Follet ACCESS Program, is intended to enhance student access to technology. It will […]

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Racist Hackers ‘Zoombomb’ Online Meeting of U of South Carolina’s African American Students

An online social gathering of the University of South Carolina’s (UofSC) African American students was ‘Zoombombed’ by hackers who invaded the video conferencing platform with racial slurs and images, reported WVLT 8. The incident occurred at an annual spring cookout hosted by the university’s Association of African American Students on Friday. The event was held […]

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Asian Americans are Not the “Model Minority”

Asian Americans are wrongly assumed to be doing well, uniformly and virtually without exception. The stereotype, dubbed “the model minority myth,” has been debunked again and again, but it persists in ideological claims that Asian Americans demonstrate racial discrimination has been eliminated and hard work is all it takes to do well.

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Two Young HBCU Graduates Raise Funds for Students Impacted by COVID-19

In the wake of COVID-19, Jonathan Allen and Derrick Young Jr. were anxious to lend a helping hand. Both Allen and Young — two graduates of Grambling State University, a historically Black university in Louisiana — launched an online fund to provide small emergency grants to Boston-area college students displaced by coronavirus.

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Dr. Pellom McDaniels, NFL Veteran and Emory Professor, Dies at 52

Dr. Pellom McDaniels III, a National Football League (NFL) veteran and assistant professor of African American Studies at Emory University, died Sunday in Atlanta, reported Oregon Live. He was 52. McDaniels began his athletic and academic career at Oregon State University where he earned accolades playing as a defensive lineman, said a statement on Emory’s […]

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Diversity in the DACA Numbers—Undocumented Whites

For the first time, someone thought it would be a good idea to do an official count of undocumented students in higher ed. And yes, it confirms what we know more or less, there’s a lot of them, about 450,000, two percent of all students in post-secondary education, according to the The New American Economy and the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, which collaborated on the survey using Census data.

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