James R. Martin II will lead the nation’s largest HBCU. A civil engineer from a rural Southern town has been tapped to lead the nation’s...
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – JULY 02: View of NYX during the 2023 ESSENCE™ Cultural Festival at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on July 2,...
As a mother and community organizer, I look to my children and others to see the hopes and guarantees for his or her future. I’m also...
Congratulations are to ensure that one mother-daughter duo. Latonya Johnson, 43, and Laila Birchett, 21, graduated together from the School of Social Work at Rutgers University...
Many years ago, I took my wife on her first trip to the Deep South, during which we made an 11-hour trip from Washington, D.C. to...
I still remember where I used to be on May 17, 1954, after I first heard that the United States Supreme Court had issued this decision....
Seventy years ago, on May 17, 1954, the United States Supreme Court issued a ruling declaring racially segregated public schools unconstitutional. The court’s ruling resolved a...
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – Ralph Kennedy Frasier, the last living member of the trio of young African-Americans who first desegregated undergraduate students at North Carolina’s flagship...
Howard University is severing ties with Sean “Diddy” Combs, rescinding his honorary doctorate and eliminating a scholarship program named after him following a video recently released...
ATLANTA (AP) — President Joe Biden will deliver the commencement address at Morehouse College on Sunday, a key election-year opportunity to talk before a black audience...
