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What About Cheyney University? We Rose First!

Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world, Nelson Mandela said in his 2003 speech, “Lighting Your Way to a Better Future.” Enslaved people who sought freedom through education and abolitionists who used education as a catalyst to end slavery understood this idea. So did Quaker philanthropist Richard Humphreys, who […]

March 13, 2018

HBCUs

HBCUs: For Colored Kids When Predominantly White Institutions Aren’t Enough

Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, founded in 1837, is recognized as the nation’s oldest historically Black institution of higher education, or HBCU.  Harvard University, founded in 1636, is the U.S.’s oldest institution of higher education.

March 1, 2018

HBCUs

Urban League’s Morial: Educational Equity Essential to Economic Empowerment

Marc H. Morial, former mayor of New Orleans and current president and CEO of the National Urban League (NUL), sees proactivity and collaboration as a way to create a movement and drive social change, particularly toward equity in education.

February 28, 2018

HBCUs

HBCU Leaders Meeting with Business Leaders at GOP Event

WASHINGTON — The leaders of the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities got major face time in front of some of America’s top companies, such as Google, Starbucks and Walmart, on Tuesday at this year’s HBCU Fly-In, sponsored by congressional Republicans. The HBCU Fly-In started last year as a way for the colleges and universities […]

February 28, 2018

HBCUs

The Changing Landscape for Aspiring Black Journalists

When the nation’s news organizations were flush with money at the turn of the century, newsroom diversity was a top priority at a number of media companies. They spent millions of dollars on internships, entry-level jobs and training.

February 27, 2018

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Maryland Offers $100 Million to Settle State’s HBCU Case

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has offered to spend up to $100 million to settle a 12-year-long lawsuit brought on by a coalition of the state’s four historically Black colleges concerning inequality in higher education.

February 8, 2018

HBCUs

PBS Documentary Examines History of HBCUs: ‘Tell Them We Are Rising’

The vital role and relevance of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) has been contested in contemporary times. Until recently, no central text or film documented the history of these institutions as they transformed the lives of African-Americans and American society over the arc of time.

February 6, 2018

African-American

Center for Advancing Opportunity Releases Findings That Reflect ‘Fragile Communities’

The Thurgood Marshall College Fund in January 2017 announced a bold new partnership with the Charles Koch Foundation to use data-driven analytics to study the problems of “fragile communities” in the United States.

February 5, 2018

African-American

A Seasoned HBCU Leader Takes the Helm of TMCF

Dr. Harry Williams, the new leader of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund is known among peers for his focused, successful, low-key approach to tough challenges.

January 3, 2018

HBCUs

Baltimore City Community College Receives Grant for Tobacco Education

Baltimore City Community College (BCCC) is the latest school to receive a $20,000 grant to educate students on the effects of tobacco use and to develop and implement comprehensive tobacco-free policies.

December 18, 2017

African-American

TMCF and Koch Collaboration Looks to Former Education Official to Lead Research Organization

A new research initiative created to support HBCUs and research fragile communities that lack access to education and economic opportunities has named Gerard Robinson, an education scholar and former school official, as its new executive director.

December 11, 2017

African-American

Minority-Serving Institutions Anxious Over Tax Bill

Income tax on graduate student waivers, fewer deductions on student loans and the taxation of endowments are only some of the effects the GOP’s tax bill will have.

December 3, 2017