A college senior at HBCU St. Augustine is slated to graduate this Sunday but won’t be able to walk because of something he posted on…
ATLANTA — Morris Brown College is expected to settle nearly $10 million in debt for pennies on the dollar in an agreement pending with the…
What if I told you that the largest slave rebellion in American history was one no one knows about? Well, we commemorate the successful end of one such rebellion 173 years ago this week… Some of you may have heard of the Black Seminoles, the free blacks and fugitive slaves who allied with Seminole Indians […]
Atlanta — Bernice King called into one of our radio sites, Praise 102.5, and spoke with Rhodell Lewis today on what is the 43rd death anniversary of her father, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Saying that today is a sad day for her on a lot of fronts, she talked about all of the problems […]
By Hakim Hasan Dr. Manning Marable, 60, a history and political science professor at Columbia University, died on Friday (April 1). His life as a scholar is beset by the tragic irony that his long-awaited biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, is scheduled to be published on Monday (April 4) by Viking Press. It […]
Today marks the 43rd year since we lost Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In remembrance of him, we will share Martin Luther King Jr.’s Top 5 Speeches. Martin Luther King might be the greatest orator in American history. His words and speeches changed the tide of American history. Not only did he give speeches on […]
Former NBA player and Fab Five member Jalen Rose was suspended indefinitely by ESPN after reports surfaced that Rose had been arrested for drunk driving. According to ESPN, Rose was being sent to the bench for not reporting the incident to the network. Rose allegedly failed a blood-alcohol test after his truck crashed in Bloomfield, […]
WASHINGTON — First lady Michelle Obama urged high school students on Wednesday to think about their career goals and the job market before deciding what type of education to pursue. ALSO READ: 25 Black Women You Should Know About Obama was speaking at Ballou High School in southeast Washington as part of a Women’s History […]
Search engine and Internet giant Google will be hosting functions in a number of major cities around the country in an effort to recruit HBCU graduates. ALSO READ: 25 Black Women You Should Know About “Over the past few years HBCU graduates have made significant contributions to Google’s success,” the company said in a statement. […]
Search engine and Internet giant Google will be hosting functions in a number of major cities around the country in an effort to recruit HBCU…
New York’s Legislature and Gov. Andrew Cuomo restored $51 million to New York City schools, $45 million to Long Island schools and $134 million to upstate schools under last-minute negotiations in the state budget Wednesday. ALSO READ: 25 Black Women You Should Know About The restorations spread over 700 school districts statewide represented in most […]
They say that it’s easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. This truism might also include public celebrity tirades. Another name for these outbursts might be “publicity stunts designed to sell records.” This is the case where a celeb goes bananas in public and does something that is both unthinkable and conversation-worthy, sure to grab […]
