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Image associated with the ASU ‘Family’ Shows Support for Selma’s Concordia College news item Author: Lois G. Russell Alabama State University showed up in big numbers to help students attend

Selena Ligons, an officer with the Winston-Salem State University Police Department, has all the right moves. A video of Ligons taking a moment from her policing duties during a WSSU home basketbal

The 18 first-year students who form MEC’s newly-established Honors Program are off to a good start – meeting with their faculty mentors, establishing good study habits, and even trading notes with M

While double-digit seeds always win games in the NCAA tournament, which upsets were the largest from a Vegas perspective? Since the NCAA tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985, there have been 46

Area eighth-graders can spend Spring Break preparing for high school at Empowerment 2018, a three-day youth camp on Gadsden State Community College’s Valley Street Campus, the area’s only Historically

Southern University alumnus and teaching artist, Donney Rose, has been selected for the 2018-1019 Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Fellow Recognition. The Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Fellow Recognition

Morgan State University announces the signing of a new Educational Program Agreement with the Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division (NSWC IHEODTD). T

Ruth J. Simmons serves as President of Prairie View A&M University. She was President and Professor of Comparative Literature and Africana Studies at Brown University from 2001-2012. Under her leaders

Tennessee State University on Tuesday unveiled a historical marker honoring alumnus and Medal of Honor recipient, Lt. William McBryar. A number of lawmakers, military officials, and TSU officials

Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner announced a joint agreement today in which Precinct One will pay $30 million to improve seven streets in the Texas Southern

The Jackson State University Athletics Department has announced its 2018 football schedule. JSU’s 11-game schedule features five teams with winning records and one that played in a bowl game. JSU B

When the University of Texas system and Texas Association of Community Colleges co-host their All Texas Academic Team medallion and certificate ceremony during a reception in the LBJ Auditorium in Aus

Black horsemen played a vital role in shaping early American turf history, and the Kentucky Derby is no exception. The history of the Kentucky Derby and African-American horsemen are intertwined. The

A Delaware State University physics and engineering faculty member recently received a three-year $450,000 grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research that will contribute to the developmen

The Groveland Four (or the Groveland Boys) were four young African-American men: Earnest Thomas, Charles Greenlee, Samuel Shepherd and Walter Irvin, who were accused of raping a 17-year-old white woma

Today, during the first HBCU STEAM Day of Action, Congresswoman Alma S. Adams (D-NC) and Congressman Bradley Byrne (R-AL), co-chairs of the Bipartisan Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBC

Roger Arliner Young (1889-1964) was born in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania in 1889, was the first black woman to earn a Ph.D. in zoology and to conduct research at the prestigious Marine Biological Labora

Bringing the HBCU Experience to Mexico City! The bright sun was shining upon us when we visited the Frida Kahlo Museo en la Casa Azul, Kahlo’s family home where she and her husband, Diego Rivera, l

Written by Alonda Thomas "In this full circle moment, we get to witness a student who once benefited from a quality Howard education, return to give back so the next generation of students can ex

Investment will be used to address access to care and nursing shortages, educational resources and technology Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC) will invest $1 million in

6 year old Romanieo Jr. engages in playful improvisation in describing the structure of organic molecules. AMAZING!!! Click this link to subscribe: www.youtube.com/c/NewBlackKnowledge IG: www.i

Keshia Knight Pulliam, cast as the iconic Rudy Huxtable at five-years-old, is the featured speaker at Kentucky State University’s Women’s History Month Assembly March 22 at 11 a.m. in the Carl H. Smit

The National Civil Rights Library “The Cornerstone Of The Civil Rights Community” Mission Statement Our Mission that we hope to Achieve in presenting the **National Urban Economic Think Tank

Team NBK discusses the origins of the Black Conscious Community and some of the important figures that laid the foundation. Men and women such as Hubert Harrison, John Edward Bruce, John Henrik Clarke, Arturo Schomburg and many others paved the way for first a Consciousness of Africa and also an awa