Netflix will act as the inaugural scholarship donor for the multi-million dollar Chadwick Boseman Scholarship. The University also recently announced that it renamed its College of Fine Arts center after the late actor. The $5.4 million Chadwick Boseman Scholarship will cover four years of tuition for students, awarding one incoming freshman annually with the scholarship. […]

After saluting Wakanda, he announced the re-establishment of Howard’s College of Fine Arts.

The nation’s most highly regarded HBCU is under protest this weekend, as Howard University students continue a takeover of the main administration building. Days after it was revealed that six employees were fired for financial aid fraud, HU students have decided that enough is enough. Questions remain about the fate of the university’s embattled president […]

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Howard University student activists interrupted James Comey's convocation speech there late Friday morning, with protesters alternating between various chants of resistance.

Google establishes a training space on its Silicon Valley campus for Howard University computer science students.

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A C-SPAN survey of 91 presidential historians ranked Obama as the 12th best U.S. president ever.

An esteemed African-American chemist dies in a home fire. George Nauflett is credited with earning at least 26 patents.

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The Tony Awards set the bar for diversity on Sunday evening as several actors and actresses of color were recognized for their work; a major difference from the #OscarsSoWhite controversy that ensued earlier this year. For the first time in the ceremony’s history, four musical acting awards were nabbed by Black actors. Broadway hit show […]

Watch President Barack Obama deliver one of his final commencement speeches at Howard University Saturday.

President Barack Obama will deliver one of his final commencement addresses to the class of 2016 at Howard University in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, May 7, according to the White House.

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On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will address one of the biggest abortion cases in 20 years.

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A new study shows that house-sharing service Airbnb isn’t always accommodating for African-Americans. Research conducted by the Harvard Business School revealed that Airbnb hosts discriminate against people of color and those with ethnic names. HBS put together 6,400 fake Airbnb guest profiles, giving each profile a “White” or a “Black” name. The names were pulled from data […]