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NBA All-Star 2022 will take place in Cleveland next month, and in addition to the stars, celebrations and events surrounding one of sports most anticipated annual events, The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association will once again highlight the HBCU community during their time in The Land.

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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is getting a lot of praise for his generous “gift” to historically black colleges and universities! Hastings gifted $120 million to be divided up between Morehouse. . .Spelman and the United Negro College Fund! It is reported: “in what early estimates describe as being the largest individual gift ever given toward […]

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John Wilson Jr. issued a statement on Thursday expressing his disappointment with the meeting and his disdain for Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' recent comments about HBCUs.

Celebrity Gossip

The last week has not been a pleasant one for gossip daytime talk show host Wendy Williams, and today she had to deal with the aftermath of her inflammatory and controversial statements regarding her opinion on HBCUs and the NAACP. NewsOne Now host Roland Martin was one of Wendy Williams’ harshest critics last week when […]

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Wendy Williams is notorious for her brash and often rude comments regarding the world of celebrities, which is applauded by some as just mindless celebrity gossip. However, today the daytime talk show host may have just dug herself a verbal hole that will be very hard to escape from.   During this morning’s show while […]

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Plus, Flint Mayor Karen Weaver threatens to sue the state of Michigan and a Black fire fighter files a discrimination lawsuit against the Boston Red Sox.

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With tensions between minorities and police at an all-time high these days, some parents are taking more precautions to keep their children safe. In a recent interview…

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Two-thirds of Black male students who start at public colleges and universities do not graduate within six years, which is the lowest college completion rate among both sexes and all racial groups in U.S. higher education. Researchers in the past decade have called attention to these high attrition rates and other troubling trends concerning this […]