By Howard University Blue Star Families (BSF) in partnership with Howard University and The Chamberlain Project, hosted a panel symposium titled “Freedom to Serve: Integrating the Armed Services,” on July 26. The event wove together the expertise, data, and action of Blue Star Families’ Campaign for Inclusion with Howard University’s deep history of military service […]
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HU Professor Earns Top Journalism Honor
Contribution from Adean King Howard University Associate Professor Jennifer C. Thomas is the recipient of two notable honors. She was named the Scripps Howard Foundation/ Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (AEJMC), Teacher of the Year, one of the industry’s top honors for outstanding journalism. She has also been named as a 2020 […]
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New Video Story About Impact of Covid-19 in Florida
First responders and medical care workers aren’t the only ones in crisis mode due to the coronavirus pandemic. Funeral homes are also having to take special precautions to help families say their final goodbyes. NewsVision reporter Tia Humphries covers the story from Orlando, Florida.
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NewsVision Special Report From HUNS: COVID-19’s Impact in Communities Across the Country
By Howard University News Service (HUNS) Howard University capstone broadcast journalists share how the the coronavirus is affecting communities across the country– from New Jersey to California. The NewsVision journalists, who were mandated to return home due to the pandemic, report on how their local communities are now facing issues ranging from the economy, education, […]
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Howard University Suspends All International Travel Due to Coronavirus
On Saturday March 7, Howard University Communications sent an email to all students and faculty announcing a travel restriction. Link: http://hunewsservice.com/news/howard-university-suspends-all-international-travel-due-to-coronavirus/ Howard University News Service is a free wire service that delivers print and broadcast news stories to nearly 200 NNPA member newspapers on issues pertaining to minority communities. Video and print stories are produced by […]
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Howard Students Vow to Occupy Administration Building Until President Frederick Resigns
By Autumn Dalton and Jazmin Goodwin, Howard University News Service Members of HU Resist, a student protest group at Howard University are still maintaining their demand that school president Wayne A.I. Frederick resign; they say that he has not been in contact with them. “He’s been silent.” Alexis McKenney, a member of HU Resist and Howard […]
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Too Many Dying Too Young
By Alexa Imani Spencer, Howard University News Services This is the second of a two-part series on the murders of teenagers throughout the U.S. Read the first part here. While the nation’s attention is focused on deaths in school shootings, most teenage murders occur daily in African-American and Hispanic neighborhoods with little fanfare or public debate. Steven Slaughter was […]
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Too Many Dying Too Young
By Alexa Imani Spencer, Howard University News Service This is the first of a two-part series on the murders of teenagers throughout the U.S. While the nation attention is focused on deaths in school shootings, most teenage murders occur daily in African-American and Hispanic neighborhoods with little fanfare or public debate. As 2017 came to an […]
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Plight of Haitians, Salvadorans Lost in DACA Debate More than 250,000 immigrants at jeopardy after losing Temporary Protected Status
Rony Ponthieux’s view of the future changes by the day. A Haitian immigrant living in Miami, Ponthieux has been working in the United States under the Temporary Protected Status,TPS, provision since 2010, when he, his wife and two children, then 3 and 10, left Haiti in the wake of the island’s devastating earthquake. Receiving it, […]
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Childhood Diabetes Continues to Climb Among Black Children
Meagan Charles is a nursing student at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, N.Y. She also one of the rising number of Americans diagnosed as children with diabetes. “I was 13 when I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes,” said Charles, now 22. “It was one of those things I didn’t understand at such a young […]
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Why Public School Teachers, Administrators Cheat
Public schools in the nation’s capital recently reported that the graduation rate for 2017 was the highest in the school system’s history. According to school officials, about 73 percent of Washington public schools’ students graduated on time, another record high for a school system that had struggled years ago to graduate even half of its students. […]
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Black Entrepreneurs Locked Out Of The Burgeoning Marijuana Business
The market for marijuana is booming. Seven states and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana for recreational use. An additional 22 states have made medical use of marijuana lawful. Along with buying marijuana to smoke, customers can now get cannabis-infused candy, cookies, brownies, sodas and cuisine prepared by specialized marijuana chefs like Andrea Drummer […]