Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum doesn’t settle for low hanging fruit. In 2009, when she announced Spelman College’s $150M capital campaign, a lofty goal for those
The 14th annual Bridge Builder Awards took place April 16 at The Foundry at Puritan Mill. Dr. Alvetta Peterman Thomas, president of Atlanta Technical College, welcomed and recognized the 2015 Bridge Builder recipients.
Metro Atlanta native Daria Jordan, a Buick Achievers Scholarship recipient and senior at Spelman College, was honored at the UNCF 36th “Evening of Stars” showcase. This
It’s that time of year again that brings joy to thousands of HBCU students, commencement. Several top tier HBCUs have announced exciting speakers for 2015.
“A mind is a terrible thing to waste, but a wonderful thing to invest in.”The UNCF’s “An Evening of Stars” returned to Atlanta for the
The Atlanta Technical College Student Film Festival took place Thursday, April 2 at the Fulton County Aviation Community Cultural Center. The film festival selection committee
Harold Ekeh will have the choice of attending any Ivy League school of his choice. The 17-year-old senior, who currently attends Elmont High School in
Who knew that the influence one special principal, Nadia Lopez of Mott Hall Bridges Academy, had on an eighth grade student named Vidal Chastanet, would
(Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel greets students after a graduation ceremony.) Chicago’s Urban Prep Academy has done it again. For the fifth straight year the all-male
Jeff Shafer, 28, was raised in Kansas City, Missouri and moved to Chicago in 2005 to earn his BA in marketing communications at Columbia College Chicago. Shafer first
Morris Brown College filed for bankruptcy in August 2012 with roughly $30 million in debt, more than half was owed to the African Methodist Episcopal
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Did you know there are nearly 62 million girls around the world – half of whom are adolescent – who are not in school? It’s imperative
Esther Okade had dreams of attending college when she was 7 years old. But instead of waiting 10 years like most students her age, she
The nation’s struggling HBCUs may have gotten an unwanted dose of reality recently from President Barack Obama. During a meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus,
Name: Sofia Ivanka Company: Building Smart Kids Title: Founder Age: 15 How did you get started in the tutoring business? When I was younger I
Almost everyone would agree that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a great man who worked tirelessly to right many of the grave injustices that Blacks faced during
The student team from Spelman College in Atlanta walked away with the winning title in Ford’s 2014 Historically Black Colleges and Universities Community Challenge and
Country Financial and agency owner, Alexis Cierra Holt, decided to share a wealth of wisdom with high school students across the country by sponsoring an
It is a fact that the majority of HBCUs in the United States do not receive anywhere near the level of funding that white institutions
