Howard University Professors and faculty announce their plan to go on a labor strike based on unfair labor charges at the university.

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The Los Angeles Board of Water and Power Commissioners has invested $5 million in HBCUs to increase representation in the engineering industry.

The need for Black teachers is crucial because oftentimes they can bridge the gap for many Black students and connect with them in meaningful ways

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Infamous former Baylor University football coach Art Briles quickly resigned as offensive coordinator at Grambling State after intense backlash from the HBCU community. Briles was fired after a wide-ranging sexual assault scandal at Baylor.

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Newly appointed Dr. Dietra Trent has begun her tenure as the Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity through Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

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Livingstone College received a $2.24 million endowment to advance its STEM initiatives.

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Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings, and his wife Patty Quillin, recently gifted Tougaloo College with a $10 million donation.

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The Student Freedom Initiative is one of the organizations trying to correct the problem of bad student loan agreements by providing social and economic mobility for STEM-studying juniors and seniors at HBCUs for years to come.

Even though a pair of former Norfolk State University roommates hadn't seen each other in 21 years, their brotherhood proved to stand the test of time after one provided a part of his liver to the other during a rare transplant surgery.

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Businessman Robert F. Smith’s nonprofit has teamed up with Prudential to create a $1.8M grant program for HBCU students.

Crime

The FBI has confirmed that six “tech-savvy juveniles” are persons of interest in connection to the string of bomb threats made to nearly two dozen HBCUs since the start of the New Year. 

Crime

Multiple bomb threats targeting at least six HBCUs forced a few prominent institutions to alert their campus communities weeks after other historically Black colleges and universities were similarly targeted earlier this month.