Posts in category HBCU

William Hudson, vice president for student affairs. PHOTO COURTESY OF RATTLER NATION Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Officials at Florida A&M University credit an intensive …

Left to Right: UNCF Executive Vice President Maurice Jenkins Jr., Florida Memorial University President Dr. Roslyn Artis and Miami-Dade County Deputy Mayor Russell Benford are …

Senator Perry E. Thurston PHOTO COURTESY OF TWITTER By SENATOR PERRY E. THURSTON Historic black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have made it their mission to …

BY STAFF REPORT AND ERRIN HAINES WHACK Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday aimed at signaling his commitment to …

By SAADSHAW In the early 1950’s I had the honor to hear Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune speak in a packed, hot and humid Clayborn Temple …

By ISHEKA N. HARRISON iharrison@sfltimes.com The Trump Administration has invited the leaders of the nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to join them on …

By LEEDS ANTOINE Special to South Florida Times Formal education was actively denied to African Americans prior to the Civil War, particularly in the South. …

Black PR Wire CORAL GABLES, Fla. – It wasn’t the Greensboro sit-in of 1960, when four 17year-old African American college students continued to sit in …

WEST PALM BEACH – Sixty years after her death, the Palm Beach County Alumni Chapter of Bethune-Cookman University continues to honor the legacy of the …

Staff Report Courtesy of Black PR Wire “Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Historically Black Colleges and Universities” is the first and only …