Oakwood University commits to deliver healthier options and promote more opportunities for physical activity to help improve the health of students, faculty and staff
Today, Oakwood University announced it will join the Partnership for a Healthier ...
Posted Monday, September 21st 2015 at 1:55PM
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Fisk University has announced the resignation of President H. James Williams.
“We have accepted Dr. Williams’ resignation and thank him for his part in the advancements of Fisk in recent years,” said Barbara Landers Bowles, Chairpe ...
Posted Monday, September 21st 2015 at 1:40PM
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Texas Southern University will be hosting its first ever Public Servant Night when the Tigers host Alabama State on Thursday, October 1 at 6:30 p.m. at BBVA Compass Stadium. All active and retired public servants including fire fighters, law en ...
Posted Friday, September 18th 2015 at 6:19PM
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Allen University is pleased to announce an Open House Event for the Mother Mary Norris Honors Center (HC). This event is open to Allen University faculty, staff, students, alumni, parents, community members, and corporate sponsors. The Open Hou ...
Posted Wednesday, September 16th 2015 at 5:32PM
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On September 17, 2015, Allen University, located in Columbia S.C. will honor the theme “Allen University: Gratitude, Courage, and Transformation”. We will officially welcome new and returning students to the 146th Academic year duri ...
Posted Wednesday, September 16th 2015 at 5:29PM
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Alcorn State University has once again ranked as a top university in the “Top Public Schools-Regional Universities South” category of the U.S. News & World Report’s Best Colleges rankings.
Alcorn is ranked number 27 in the Hist ...
Posted Wednesday, September 16th 2015 at 5:20PM
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Former New York Jets all-pro and Super Bowl winning offensive lineman Winston Hill will return to his alma mater –Texas Southern University – October 23, 2015 to be honored as part of the school’s homecoming event Tigers in the NFL ...
Posted Wednesday, September 16th 2015 at 3:46PM
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SWAC Football 2015 kicked off in Houston with Prairie View A&M beating Texas Southern 38-11 in the 31st Labor Day Classic. Mark Gray and Ron Mitchell called the game for HSRN and filed this report on SportsGroove TV. ...
Posted Tuesday, September 8th 2015 at 5:09PM
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Radio Astronomer, Dr. Victor Migenes, has come to TSU to help the Physics program in the College of Science, Engineering and Technology develop a Radio Astronomy program. Migenes will teach advanced electives in senior thesis research and radio astro ...
Posted Tuesday, September 8th 2015 at 5:06PM
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No one can tell the story about the renaissance of Texas Southern University better than Glenn O. Lewis. And the “O” stands for extremely "Optimistic”. As chairman of the TSU Board of Regents since 2007, Lewis now knows more about t ...
Posted Tuesday, September 8th 2015 at 5:02PM
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To all the site readers, we seek your help.
Earl Francis Lloyd (1928-2015) was the first African American to play in the NBA for the Washington Capitols in 1950. Subsequently, he was also the first African American to both win an NBA Championship (1 ...
Posted Thursday, September 3rd 2015 at 5:35PM
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Professional vocalist Jolie Rocke Brown, a soprano, has joined the TSU faculty as a visiting professor of Music for the fall semester. Committed to passing on her passion for performance technique by educating future generations, Rocke Brown will be ...
Posted Tuesday, September 1st 2015 at 1:51PM
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Francis Vazquez has been accepted into the 2015-2016 HBCU All-Star cohort to serve as the White House Initiative on HBCUs student ambassador for Texas Southern University. Vazquez will work to advance President Barack Obama’s Executive Order 13 ...
Posted Tuesday, September 1st 2015 at 1:45PM
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By Alexander Nazaryan 8/18/15 at 4:37 AM
Coutesy of NewsWeek - http://www.newsweek.com/black-colleges-matter-363667
Medgar Evers College, an overwhelmingly black branch of the City University of New York, sits atop a hill in central Brooklyn. ...
Posted Friday, August 28th 2015 at 6:08PM
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Texas Southern University’s Heritage of Zion Singers, a group comprised primarily of the university’s opera workshop and university choir students, recently returned from an exciting series of concerts of Negro Spirituals, Black Gospel Mu ...
Posted Friday, August 28th 2015 at 5:54PM
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Jelisa Barringer is the 47th National Miss Black America Titleholder. She Joined the Ranks of Oprah Winfrey, Toni Braxton, Bernadette Stanis, Alexandra Morton and more.
Jelisa is a 25 year old native of Columbus, OH crowned Miss Black America 2015-1 ...
Posted Friday, August 28th 2015 at 5:25PM
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Coutesy of The Huffington Post
As Posted ByJarrett L. Carter, HBCUDigest.com
Hillary Clinton today became the latest democratic presidential hopeful to call for increased higher education access through loan or tuition-free governmental fun ...
Posted Friday, August 21st 2015 at 6:28PM
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By Carmen Jones
Courtesy of XOJane.com
One day I woke up, and Twitter had exploded. A young Black woman had gotten everyone into a tizzy. “A 4.0 at an HBCU is not equivalent to a 4.0 at a PWI,” she tweeted. It really got me thinking. Is ...
Posted Friday, August 21st 2015 at 6:23PM
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Allen University has opened its doors to the new Mother Mary Ann Norris Honors Program Center.
Angel Risher is the current Miss Allen University. She and the other honors students in her class will be the first to graduate in the honors program ...
Posted Friday, August 21st 2015 at 5:57PM
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Xavier University of Louisiana’s College of Pharmacy has been awarded an $8,362,190 grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Resources. Over the next three years, the grant wi ...
Posted Friday, August 21st 2015 at 5:38PM
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By Barbara WatersExcerpt from Tyler Morning Telegraph
"Texas College students will have a better environment when Phase 1 campus improvements, which cost $19.3 million, are complete in November," President Dwight J. Fennell said. "Phase 1 involves ' ...
Posted Tuesday, July 28th 2015 at 6:14PM
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NBMBAA Entrepreneurial Institute®(EI), is a “must attend” day long series of business development workshops and breakthrough training sessions. The EI attracts new entrepreneurs, current business owners and small business professionals seeking the knowledge and tools of success. EI provides professional development via workshops, panels, discussions, networking opportunities and ...
Posted Monday, July 27th 2015 at 5:56PM
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Chicago, IL and Houston, TX - In its search for proven and flexible instructional programs to serve its mission of, “empowering students, parents, teachers, administrators and community leaders in an effort to develop independent learners&rdquo ...
Posted Friday, July 24th 2015 at 3:10PM
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Alcorn is one of eight Mississippi institutions to share a $2.25 million higher education grant from the Department of Education’s Student Support Services program. Alcorn will receive $329,571 to aid its Student Support Services program.Alcorn ...
Posted Thursday, July 23rd 2015 at 5:03PM
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Breaking color barriers is par for the course for African Americans. Lee Elders did exactly that 40 years ago by making history for becoming the first African American to attend the Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia in 1975. In a star studded ce ...
Posted Thursday, July 23rd 2015 at 4:58PM
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