education

Colleges that hip-hop artists attended

He may have been a college dropout, but Kanye West still spent some time in college majoring in English at Chicago State University, writing essays

5 black intellectuals in the NFL and NBA

There are often stigmas associated with being a great athlete. Athletes who work hard on the field are often unfairly portrayed as the “dumb jock.”

Top 10 HBCUs for engineering majors

Engineering is a broad field that can lead to a vast variety of careers. Half of the nation’s black engineers graduate from an HBCU. With

Lessons from President Obama

Sick and fatigued from walking about four blocks to get to the press entrance of Morehouse’s 129th commencement ceremony, one thing was embedded in my

Inside look at Hustle U Academy 2013

Hoptep and Hustle U Academy  recently held a boot camp at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta to empower  individuals who were looking to

Black college presidents

In the past two years, more than two-dozen historically black colleges have lost presidents with many citing financial issues as the chief concern. Because of