Pogue Presidency Finds Favor with Local Media

Frank Pogue may be the interim president of Grambling State University, but local media has joined the chorus of praise from students and faculty who laud his leadership and vision over his brief tenure. From the Monroe News Star:
Grambling State University has plenty on its immediate “to do” list: shore up flagging enrollment, retain current [...]

Morgan State Professor Questions Use of the ‘N’ Word Against Spectrum of Racial Disparities

Joe Petit, a professor in the Morgan State University Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, recently wrote an editorial in the Baltimore Sun Newspaper on a recent firing of a professor at nearby Towson University. The professor was dismissed after using a racial slur in the classroom.
Petit’s assertion, and a correct one at that, is [...]

FAMU Sex Tape Perpetuates Black College Student Stereotypes

Journalistic ethics and personal morality won’t allow me to link to the video here, but like most things, a simple search or question on Twitter will likely lead you to the underwhelming flesh romp that humiliates a few, and degrades the concept of student life at HBCUs.
Clearly, FAMU isn’t the only place where a co-ed [...]

Huffington Post Offers Up Pictorial Failure for ‘Largest HBCUs’

I usually have no problem with the Huffington Post, and have been especially receptive of their recent articles on historically black colleges and universities. However, the HuffPo’s recent pictorial homage to the largest HBCUs is a colossal failure to put it mildly. You can cycle through the list for yourself, but here are the embarrassing [...]

Incoming NAACP Chairwoman Roslyn Brock Tuned Voice of Leadership at Virginia Union

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People elected Virginia Union University alumnus Roslyn Brock as the next chairwoman of the oldest civil rights advocacy group in the United States over the weekend. Brock, 44, is the youngest person to hold the position in the Association’s 101-year history.
And like many great civil rights leaders, [...]

Montgomery County HBCU College Fair Exposes New Era of Potential Students

Here’s a story detailing an HBCU college fair in Montgomery County, MD., one of the most affluent counties in the United States. If you want perspective on what today’s students, with more choices in college enrollment and career planning are seeking from HBCUs, this is the place to start.
While Sandler and her mother waited to [...]

Sec. Arne Duncan to Visit HBCUs to Stress Importance of Black Male Teachers

BlackAmericaWeb.com has produced an interesting editorial on Sec. of Education Arne Duncan’s push to recruit more minority teachers into America’s school system.  With a directive from President Barack Obama to resolve the nation’s education disparities and produce the highest graduation rates in the world by 2020, it’s an ambitious and much-needed task.
“And people ask why [...]

Was Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. Robbed at the Sprite Stepoff Competition?

I wasn’t there, so I can’t call it. But you be the judge. Would your vote go to Zeta Tau Alpha from the University of Arkansas?

Or Alpha Kappa Alpha from Indiana University?

Students Advocate for Mississippi HBCUs

Students are taking more of a vocal role in the opposition to the HBCU merger proposal in Mississippi, according to an article from Clarion-Ledger reporter Elizabeth Crisp.
Alcorn State sophomore Tiffany Jackson was set on going to a historically black university.
“I knew I wanted to go to an HBCU,” she said. “If we don’t attend our [...]

Dr. Beverly Daniel-Tatum Expounds Upon Relevance of HBCUs

Dr. Beverly Daniel-Tatum, author and groundbreaking theorist on race and education, has taken her logic and expertise to the blogosphere with a column in the Huffington Post, “Why Historically Black Colleges Remain Relevant.”
The relevance and power of an HBCU education in which faculty expectations are high, peer support is strong, and role models are abundant [...]