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A group of Howard University students has taken over the Blackburn Center building on campus in an effort to amplify their demands, including changes to the board of trustees and addressing the HBCU's "housing crisis."
Holding elected officials accountable is a part of the Democratic system. But part of the accountability process is getting the facts straight. The current issue involving HBCU funding has to do with implementing Biden's Build Back Better Plan and the reconciliation budget process making its way through Congress.
On Wednesday, the US Department of Education announced changes amounting to a full overhaul of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, which grants loan forgiveness to people who work at non-profits or in the public sector once they've made payments for10 years—or at least that's what it's supposed to do.
The University of Kent, which is in the UK, is encouraging students to take a four-hour course on white privilege, pronoun use, and microaggressions, and students who pass the course win a gold star.
City schools Chancellor Meisha Ross-Porter introduced the new Black studies curriculum Wednesday at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Manhattan.
Here is an in-depth timeline of the events before, during, and after the 1915 U.S invasion and occupation of Haiti.
A woman did her best Karen impression and was forced to apologize for questioning how an Ivy League-educated Black mother became a member of a school committee in suburban Boston and suggesting she was unqualified.
Proposed HBCU investments have been slashed in a recent House Education Committee proposal. A part of the upcoming budget reconciliation process, the committee shaped a bill that falls short on promises to HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions.
During a recent interview, Ben Carson not only compared critical race theory advocates to "animals" but he also downplayed the significance of slavery in the U.S. while invoking Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s name.
It was 1865, the American Civil War was coming to a close. The Confederate's chokehold on the South was coming to an end.
New York City's historic Medgar Evers College will be offering the first-ever cannabis minor degree program to expand opportunities in the growing industry.
Many HBCUs across the nation understand the financial plight of their students and have pledged to use a combination of federal funds and private donations to completely clear out their debt and reshape the college experience overall.
