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Legendary filmmaker and Morehouse alum Spike Lee has teamed up with the talent agency Gersh to launch a fellowship program for HBCU scholars.

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Spelman alumna Dr. LaMonica Davis Taylor has launched a mobile dentist facility to serve underprivileged youth in Mississippi.

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Spelman and Morehouse received a $5 million grant from Mastercard for the creation of a Black entrepreneurship center.

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14-year-old Sydney Wilson is the youngest student to be admitted into Spelman College.

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Spelman College took home the title at the annual Honda Campus All-Star Challenge National Championship Tournament.

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In an effort to increase the representation of Black first-generation college students at Spelman College, the institution has teamed up with Ford Motor Company for the creation of a new initiative.

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Over 100 grads of the famed HBCU sign a pledge affirming a recent decsion to admit trans women.

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BIG LIES In a statement to the Senate and House intelligence committee, Jared Kushner said he had “no additional contacts with individuals who were or may have been Russian government representatives, beyond those that have already been publicly disclosed.” According to CNN, the 11-page statement was released Monday before his closed-door meeting with the Senate intelligence committee staff. […]

Spelman College established a task force to consider whether to admit transgender students. The historically Black college would join a wave of other elite women's institutions to make the policy change.

The account, which started posting May 2, details how the unidentified student was partying with upperclassmen from the men's college -- which is also the brother school to Spelman, a private women's college -- when four students took the anonymous poster into a room and began the sexual assault.

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In a controversial piece entitled, “Dear Bennett College: Just end it with Morehouse already,” Aziza Jackson, a graduate of Bennett College in North Carolina, writes that the historically Black, exclusively women’s college should cut their ties with their (supposed to be brother institution) Morehouse College because the prestigious all-male school has obviously replaced them with […]