As she has each year for the past decade, Maryland State Sen. Joan Carter Conway (D-Dist. 43) testified before her colleagues in support of a bill to promote equality between the state’s HBCUs, and its traditionally White institutions. Maryland State Sen. Joan Carter Conway (D-Dist. 43) (Facebook Photo) This year, however, Conway’s bill and testimony […]
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#BlackCollegesMatter: Allies of Maryland’s HBCUs Need To #StayWoke
Earlier this month, Maryland’s Attorney General asked federal judge Catherine C. Blake to immediately stop the process of appointing a federal monitor who could bring long awaited equity and justice to Maryland’s four Historically Black Institutions (HBIs). The State wants no monitor at all, but has signaled that if there is to be a monitor, […]
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HBCU Supporters Outline 2018 Plans
Students, alumni and supporters of Maryland’s four Historically Black Colleges and Universities ( HBCU’s) are taking their battle to stop the decades of discrimination against them by Maryland, to the Maryland General Assembly and the state’s voting booths in 2018, while efforts to stop discrimination through the court system are on hold. “Power concedes nothing […]
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After HBCU Equity Lawsuit Decision, HBCUs Plan Path Forward
Representatives of Maryland’s historically Black college and universities recently met with alumni plaintiffs in a decade-old lawsuit challenging inequality in the state’s higher education system (HBCU Equity Lawsuit)—a suit which recently ended with a federal court deciding in favor of some of the plaintiffs’ lawsuit requests. In separate meetings across the region, administrators and activists […]
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Documentary on History of HBCUs Screened at Morgan
Historically Black colleges and universities have served African-American communities for 150-plus years, but they are frequently underrepresented, according to filmmaker Stanley Nelson. Furthermore, he said, many stories are left untold in mainstream media. Nelson is attempting to change that condition with a new film, Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and […]
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Former SEC Quarterback Savoring HBCU Experience at Grambling
GRAMBLING, La. (AP) — DeVante Kincade was bouncing around a humid basketball gym in August, wiping sweat from his forehead while trying to sink 3-pointers. With a football. Grambling’s senior quarterback was about to help lead a football practice on hardwood courts after torrential downpours the night before had left the Tigers’ practice fields unplayable. […]
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Decision Postpones Justice for Md. HBCU’s; Special Master Appointed
The long-running lawsuit by HBCU alumni, students, and others against the state of Maryland over the effects of duplicating successful programs at HBCUs took another twist on Nov.8. U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake, who has been overseeing the case, declared that neither party’s proposed solutions were adequate to effectively address the “de jure segregation” that […]
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The Black Renaissance Is Real: HBCUs See Record Growth in 2017
Last week I went to Howard University’s homecoming, and like Deon Cole, Chance the Rapper and Malia Obama at the 2012 inauguration, I was reminded that once you see he bands stomping, the music playing and the quad popping, you know that nobtody throws a party like an HBCU. In between panels on the future of HBCUs and the […]
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Nine HBCU’s Celebrate150 Years of Black Excellence
HBCUs are generally known for their “flavor” and Black history. Black colleges not only throw the best social and cultural events but produce many public figures, scholars, politicians and many more workers who graduated from these institutions and have contributed to society. Morgan State University will host 8 other HBCUs who are also celebrating their […]
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Five HBCUs Ready to Work on Self-Driving Cars
Ridesharing company Lyft has announced plans to partner with online credentialing and nanodegree company Udacity to begin offering scholarships to learners who want to develop self-driving cars. Officials say that the program is designed to invite minorities into racially homogenous STEM maker space – a move that at once slaps at competitor Uber’s issues with diversity, […]
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Mississippi’s Landmark HBCU Lawsuit Shows the Reach of Inequity Beyond Borders and Across Generations
Five years from now, the State of Mississippi will make its final payout to its three public historically black universities as mandated by a Supreme Court desegregation decision ordered in 1992 and implemented by the state a decade later. (Graphic/Center for Budget and Policy Priorities) But issues persist for Alcorn State University, Jackson State University […]
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HBCU Scientist Behind NOAA Total Eclipse Imagery
WASHINGTON — Well before the nation’s first total solar eclipse dominated the headlines of every news organization in America, it was affixed to the mind of Jamese Sims. Jamese Sims meterologist, engineer, and scientist for NOAA pictured with the Goes-16. (Photo courtesy/scijinks.gov) Sims, a native of Meridian, Miss., graduate of two historically black universities and one […]
