(PRNewswire) – In July 2015, the International Civil Rights Center and Museum (ICRCM) announced plans to launch a “Pride of the HBCU” exhibit in the museum...
(BlackPRWire) – The Real Life 101 Scholarship Fund recently announced it has made significant progress. The Detroit nonprofit has made a financial commitment of more than...
Africa’s first private satellite will be launched in 2016. The project to build and launch the satellite is being powered by a group of South African...
Officials in Guyana have revealed that the former Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies (UWI) Professor E Nigel Harris will be nominated for...
By Robert Stitt May and June are graduation months for students throughout north America. This is a time when families proudly watch their sons and daughters...
Elson Floyd, president of Washington State University, has died at 59 of complications from colon cancer. Floyd had been the educational institution’s president since 2007 and...
NBA legend Charles Barkley plans to donate US$3 million total to three organizations, including his alma mater, later this week. Barkley made the announcement 3 days...
In late 2011, the Red Cross launched a multimillion-dollar project to transform the neighborhood of Campeche, in Haiti’s capital city, Port-au-Prince, which was hit hard by...
(Business Wire) – Four high school seniors have been selected by the Council of the Great City Schools (CGCS) to receive the 2015 ExxonMobil Bernard Harris...
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the United States, will hold its 106th annual...
The American Black Film Festival (ABFF) has released their highly anticipated roster of films and it was well worth the wait. With more than 30 documentaries,...
Barbadian academician, Sir Hilary Beckles has been installed as the new Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies (UWI). The installation ceremony was held...
(Nationwide) – Orrin Hudson, founder of Atlanta-based non-profit organization Be Someone, says he is on a mission to teach teens how to survive police brutality and...
(PRNewswire)- The Executive Leadership Council, the pre-eminent membership organization for the development of global Black business leaders, has announced its support for The Legal Defense Fund’s...
Tuskegee University in Alabama has been ranked the best of the top 25 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the United States at delivering what’s...
Canada’s Wilfrid Laurier University, late last month announced the appointment of Michael Lee-Chin to a second four-year term as chancellor of the university. The new tenure...
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), a museum dedicated to African American history and culture, will open in 2016 on the...
B.B. King, whose scorching guitar licks and heartfelt vocals made him the idol of generations of musicians and fans while earning him the nickname King of...
(PRNewswire) – Late last month the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) helped to launch the new Bipartisan Congressional HBCU Caucus, chaired by Representatives Alma S. Adams...
Congresswoman Terri Sewell has a new title: vice chair of the Bipartisan Congressional Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Caucus. The caucus will promote and preserve...
(BlackPRWire) – Miami Gardens – Florida – Florida Memorial University is pleased to announce that it will host its Spring 2015 Commencement Ceremony on Saturday, May...
It rained for much of Sunday, April 26, 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya. And for some reason – like happens on a rainy day – lethargy set...
U.S. first lady Michelle Obama will deliver the commencement address at Tuskegee University, a historically black university in Alabama. The May 9 event is one of...
Hamline University has named a University of Vermont dean as its next president. Fayneese Miller will take over at the St. Paul school this summer. She...
(Marketwired) – Donna Brazile, an academic, author, syndicated columnist, television political commentator, and political strategist, has been named Commencement speaker for the Spelman College Class of...
(PRNewswire) – Abbott announced earlier this week it has entered into a partnership with Earvin “Magic” Johnson to address health disparities in minority communities through a...
Elmont High School senior Harold Ekeh had a plan: he would apply to 13 colleges, including all 8 Ivy League schools, figuring it would help his...
Dr. Ronald A. Johnson has been named the fourth president of Clark Atlanta University. Johnson, who is currently the dean of the Jesse H. Jones School...
(Marketwired) – The Board of Trustees of Spelman College have announced the selection of Mary Schmidt Campbell, Ph.D., as the College’s 10th president since its founding...
South African comedian Trevor Noah has been selected to replace Jon Stewart on Comedy Central’s satirical news program, “The Daily Show,” the New York Times reported...
(PRNewswire) – Earlier this month, the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) and Apple announced a partnership to identify, develop and harness talent from the nation’s community...
NBA legend, entrepreneur and philanthropist Earvin “Magic” Johnson will on Friday announce a new scholarship for high school seniors. According to sources, Johnson will be be...
University of Alabama students earlier this week, elected the second black Student Government Association president in the organization’s 100-year history. Elliot Spillers, a junior from Pelham,...
At first glance Esther Okade seems like a normal 10-year-old. She loves dressing up as Elsa from “Frozen,” playing with Barbie dolls and going to the...
NBA legend, entrepreneur and philanthropist Earvin “Magic” Johnson has gifted US$10 million towards a targeted jobs program in Chicago designed to assist at-risk youth in the...
Serial entrepreneur Robert L. Johnson is donating several works of art from his privately owned Barnett-Aden Collection to the museum of African American History and Culture...
Thousands of Haitians killed or sickened by a cholera epidemic that they blame on U.N. peacekeepers cannot sue the United Nations in a U.S. court because...
The Caribbean Seismic Research Center (CSRC) based at the University of the West Indies (UWI) has urged the region to “move expeditiously” towards building resilience amid...
Liberia is on the verge of containing the spread of the Ebola virus with only two of its 15 counties reporting new infections, the head of...
Andrae Crouch, a legendary gospel performer, songwriter and choir director whose work graced songs by Michael Jackson and Madonna and movies such as “The Lion King,”...
Health officials in Haiti have dismissed reports that the first case of Ebola has been detected in the country. According to the country’s Minister of Public...
(NNPA) – In an effort to develop the next generation of global leaders, the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, joined, Perfect World, the China Education Association for...
There were plenty of signs that 16-year-old Joshua Colas was a chess prodigy. At age 12, Colas became the youngest African American chess master in history....
Donte Mills & Lennon Edwards, two of the countries top young personal injury lawyers, have been successfully building their firm Mills & Edwards, LLP to be recognized as...
Ava DuVernay, has been nominated for a best director Golden Globe. DuVernay, 42, who directed the Martin Luther King Jr. biopic Selma, is the first black...
Thirteen countries in the Caribbean region are on track to being certified as having eliminated HIV transmission from mother to child, while another three are getting...
Preparations are being made for the NAACP’s upcoming 120 mile (193 km), 7 day march entitled “Journey for Justice: Ferguson to Jefferson City.” The march is in...
Haiti’s health system still does not have the capacity to adequately treat cholera patients and there has been an uptick in cases in the country’s capital,...
Police arrested about six people overnight after they tried to block a street in a protest calling for a grand jury to charge a white police...
The impact of the Ebola epidemic on Africa’s economy is predicted to be much less that previously expected. According to the World Bank’s chief economist for...
Aliko Dangote has donated US$3 million to a fund established by the African Union, to contain the Ebola virus in West Africa. Dangote had previously contributed...
Myles Munroe a prominent preacher of the Bahamas Faith Ministries and his wife Ruth Munroe are among the nine people who died after their plane crashed...
Interim President of Kentucky State University Raymond Burse. PHOTO/Jonathan Palmer/The Courier-Journal Interim Kentucky State University President Raymond Burse has reduced his salary by US$90,000 to raise...
Four years into the world’s worst ever cholera epidemic, Haitians are still seeking compensation from the United Nations (UN), whose own experts have said it is...
(PRNewswire) – Michael Taylor, author of Black Men Rock, and founder of the Black Men Rock website, proves in his book and website that African American...
While the rapid response to the Ebola outbreak in Nigeria was a significant factor in quelling the spread of the deadly disease, the country has other...
Oprah Winfrey delivers acceptance speech during the W.E.B Dubois medal ceremony at Harvard University. PHOTO/Steven Senne/AP Oprah Winfrey and performer-activist Harry Belafonte were among those honoured...
Jamaica’s health minister Fenton Ferguson said Sunday that the Simpson-Miller administration is doing all it can to combat Chikungunya – a newly arrived mosquito-borne virus that...
Spelman College in Atlanta – the liberal arts college for women in Atlanta, was last week, named the U.S. top historically Black college or university (HBCU)...
Bahamas Health Minister Perry Gomez has dismissed as “bogus” a report that a confirmed case of the Ebola virus, which has infected thousands of people in...
A new study shows a large majority of African American and Hispanic news consumers do not fully trust the media to portray their communities accurately, a...
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is formalizing recommendations to deal with any possible incidence of the Ebola virus and is also improving efforts to respond to the...
The Tiger Woods Foundation is hosting more than 300 parents and students in South Florida later this month for a one-day career and college conference. The...
Surgeons working on corrective surgery on baby born with four legs and four arms. PHOTO/CNN A baby born with four legs and four arms is progressing...
Valerie Montgomery Rice. PHOTO/Morehouse School of Medicine Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice who was appointed the first woman to lead Morehouse School of Medicine a little over...
The International Black Women’s Congress (IBWC) a non-profit, community based organization, headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia and founded by Dr. La Francis Rodgers-Rose, will hold their 30th...
When Ebola hit Uganda two years ago, the country’s president quickly went on national TV and urged Ugandans to avoid touching each other. Health officials speedily...
Out-going Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies., Prof. E. Nigel Harris. PHOTO/File Professor. E. Nigel Harris has announced that he is stepping down...
For generations, historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have played a key role in educating young African Americans. But facing steep declines in enrollment, HBCUs are...
A severe drought is intensifying in Jamaica with water supply systems already well below normal, the country’s environment minister said Sunday night. In a national address,...
Kay Osborne The head of Jamaica’s most prominent human rights group has resigned over a sex education program implemented in children’s group homes.
(PRNewswire) – In Nyamata, a rural town of Bugesera district, a 30 minutes’ drive south of Rwanda’s Capital – Kigali, Jeanne Musabende’s husband is hanging out...
Trinidad & Tobago has become the latest Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country to record cases of the Chikunguyna virus after the the disease was first detected in...
Earvin “Magic” Johnson Former Los Angeles Lakers superstar and entrepreneur Earvin “Magic” Johnson will be the special guest at a fall fundraiser in El Paso hosted...
Spelman College President Beverly Daniel Tatum. PHOTO/File Beverly Daniel Tatum the president of the all-female historically Black Spelman College has announced that she will retire next...
Edward Waters College President Nathaniel Glover. PHOTO/Jacksonville.com Edward Waters College President and alumnus, Nathaniel Glover is on track to becoming the Best Male President of a...
The Ebola outbreak in three West African countries is already the deadliest to date with over 500 fatalities, and is expected to be the longest on...
The U.S. Navy has its first female four-star admiral. She is Michelle Janine Howard, promoted on Tuesday to the service’s highest rank. The ceremony was held...
U.S. senate appropriators want the National Science Foundation to do more for faculty and students at the country’s historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). It is...
Lawyers for the Haiti cholera victims, in a lawsuit against the United Nations have revealed that the organizations’ Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has been served with...
Policewoman frisking man. PHOTO/Getty Images A New York state judge has upheld a law making it easier for citizens to sue police officers performing unlawful stop...
Ebola is continuing to spread in three West African countries and the death toll in the outbreak has risen to more than 330. Health officials are...
Education dean from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) across the United States met at Rutgers University to strategize on how best to strengthen teacher education...
Sierra Leone has announced a state of emergency in the Kailahun district from the outbreak of the Ebola virus which has claimed 17 lives, banning public...
Leonard Galmon’s road to Yale University has been anything but easy. As the son of a mom who had him at 13, a murdered drug dealer...
U.S. President Barack Obama delivers an address during the launch of the “My Brother’s Keeper initiative”., February 27, 2014. PHOTO/White House When U.S. President Barack Obama...
Haitian Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe, the UN Special Representative to Haiti and the UN Senior Coordinator for cholera response vowed to press on with intensified efforts...
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) says Latin America and the Caribbean have established new targets for expanding diagnosis and antiretroviral treatment (ART) and reducing patients’...
HBCUX, a recently-launched digital media network, and the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism are teaming up to produce the inaugural Bahamas HBCUX Classic. HBCUX is planning a...
A new study released by the Center for Economic and Policy Research shows that recent black college graduates have twice as hard a time gaining employment than...
Emory University has announced that Erika Hayes James (pictured), will become the new dean of the Emory University’s (Goizueta) business school. James, a former senior associate...
Today, Jill Scott will be returning to her alma mater, Temple University, to receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree. The Philly native and Grammy...
Sean Combs (“Diddy”) delivers 146th commencement at Howard University Sean Combs “Diddy” – he dropped out of Howard University. But now he has an honorary degree...
At 6-years-old, most kids are in the first grade and the thought of anything beyond elementary school is much of a blur. But for Joshua Beckford,...
The American Bar Association has named Paulette Brown as its new president, making her the first black female to hold the title. Graduating from Howard University...
A 16-year-old Florida whiz kid graduated from high school and college in the same week; completing college first. Grace Bush advised, “It’s kind of weird that...
First Lady Michelle Obama wants every American student to expand their education beyond just a high school degree and she’s using social media to encourage kids...
University of the West Indies (UWI) Professor Norman Girvan was lauded for his dedication and development of the region during a memorial service held at the...
The head of the Caribbean Public Health Authority (CARPHA), James Hospedales, has declared that the Chikungunya virus has reached epidemic proportions in the Caribbean region. According...
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has dropped their plans to honor Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling in light of alleged...
Five scholars that graduated from Master of Science degrees in water education are ready to take on projects in their home countries. This is the first...
Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson Former Los Angeles Lakers great Earvin “Magic” Johnson is scheduled to speak at a scholarship fundraiser for students in Gary, Indiana. The Gary...
The planned inquiry into private healthcare was delayed partly due to the fact that this is a ‘new terrain’ for South Africa. “This market inquiry is...
Serial entrepreneur and entertainer, Sean Combs will deliver Howard University’s commencement speech this year in Washington. The school announced Tuesday that Combs will be among 5...
The United Negro College Fund (UNCF), has altered its signature phrase. Now, a mind is not only “a terrible thing to waste,” but “a wonderful thing...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama this week celebrates the civil rights advances of 50 years ago which laid the groundwork...
Longtime journalist and educator Charles Sumner “Chuck” Stone Jr (pictured), one of the founders of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), has died. He was...
St. Lucia has recorded its first case of the mosquito-borne disease, chikungunya. However, the national epidemiologists director in the country’s Ministry of Health, Nehum Jn Baptiste,...
Beating expectations, U.S. President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul was on track to sign up more than 7 million Americans for health insurance on deadline day...
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Sunday that Liberia has confirmed 2 cases of the deadly Ebola virus that is suspected to have killed at...
West African nations are working to contain an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus suspected to have killed at least 59 people in Guinea, with symptoms...
Haiti’s cholera outbreak is still the worst in the world, the top U.N. envoy there said Monday. Sandra Honore briefed the U.N. Security Council about the...
Mitchell administration in Grenada has revealed that it is collaborating with the St George’s University – the country’s largest – and other investors to build a...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Americanah,” a novel about race and identity by the acclaimed Nigerian author, has won the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) prize for fiction....
(GIS) – With the issue of the chikungunya virus becoming a serious public health threat as cases continue to increase in some Caribbean island-states, Grenada’s Health...
The rate of adults in the United States who lack health insurance keeps going down, according to major survey tracking the rollout of President Barack Obama’s...
(BlackPRWire) – Arthritis causes a surprisingly disproportionate amount of pain and limitations for African Americans. According to a study released by the Centers for Disease Control...
(BlackPRWire) – Miami Gardens – Florida – Florida Memorial University (FMU) is preparing to celebrate another milestone birthday. South Florida’s only Historically Black College or University...
The government of Haiti along with international partners launched a vaccination campaign against cholera on Saturday targeting 100,000 people in vulnerable areas of the country. The...
Pro-Obamacare demostrators lobbying outside the U.S. Supreme Court. PHOTO/Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press U.S. President Barack Obama’s 2010 health law (Obamacare) was responsible for about three-quarters of a...
A happy Lupita Nyong’o with her Oscar award. PHOTO/Kevin Winter/Getty Images Lupita Nyong’o won the best supporting actress Oscar on Sunday for her role in harrowing...
UNAIDS Caribbean said Monday that 8 regional countries have finalized specific strategies aimed at strengthening their HIV programs by making them more responsive to human rights....
Design concept for the National Museum of African American History and Culture. IMAGE/David Adjaye The Links Foundation Inc., an international non-profit, has revealed that it will...
(BlackPRWire) – Miami, Florida – Earlier this week, a national story-gathering campaign kicked off to acknowledge black men and boys as assets to society. BMe Community,...
Health officials in Dominica have confirmed 31 cases of chikungunya. Chikungunya, which is an infection, causes an illness with a similar mode of transmission as dengue...
Myrlie Evers-Williams. PHOTO/Tyler Cleveland Civil rights leader Myrlie Evers-Williams is stepping down from the board of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),...
Essence Magazine is known for honoring black women, but during Oscar week, it will also be lauding the accomplishments of African American men in film. The...
(Black PR Wire) – Miami Gardens, Florida – The Board of Trustees of Florida Memorial University (FMU) earlier this week announced the appointment of Dr. Roslyn...
A four-member team of Jamaican scientists working at the International Centre for Environment and Nuclear Sciences (ICENS), University of the West Indies, Mona, has had its...
The year is 2063. By now, all of Europe’s volcanoes have come to life and erupted, spewing out thick plumes of ash into the atmosphere. Dense...
The nation’s uninsured rate dropped modestly this month as the major coverage expansion under U.S. President Barack Obama’s health care law got underway, according to a...
A United Nations envoy warned Wednesday that cholera deaths in Haiti will surge and spread to other countries unless more funds are found to battle the...
Martin Luther Jr. PHOTO/File As we celebrate the life, achievements, and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., entrepreneurs should take note of five important business...
Dominica has recorded its first case of the chikungunya virus but health officials say there is no cause for alarm. “We can confirm that we have...
(Black PR Wire) – Atlanta, Georgia – Actor, comedian turned media mogul and philanthropist, Steve Harvey, takes on another exciting role by joining the Coca-Cola Pay...
Chikungunya a mosquito-borne virus appears to be spreading quickly in the Caribbean during the winter tourism season just weeks after epidemiologists first found local transmission occurring...
Gwendolyn Boyd (pictured), has been named as the first female president of Alabama State University. Boyd assumes the role on February 1. “I feel good about...
In a year rich with black-oriented films, nominees for the NAACP Image Awards include “12 Years a Slave” and “Lee Daniels’ The Butler.” “Fruitvale Station,” “Mandela:...
In 2013, Howard University was classified by the National Science Foundation as the top producer of African Americans who go on to earn doctorates in science...
(Black PR Wire) – Atlanta – Hosted by Emmy®-winning television journalist and CNN Anchor Suzanne Malveaux and featuring interviews by Political Strategist/Writer/Commentator Jamal Simmons, ASPiRE Tv’s...
The National Disaster Management Agency of Grenada has begun efforts to provide relief for St Vincent, St Lucia and Dominica, which suffered from serious storms over...
A world-renowned clinic in Haiti that has become a leader in global health while leading the fight against HIV/AIDS has won a top global health prize....
Pro-Obamacare demostrators lobbying outside the U.S. Supreme Court. PHOTO/Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press The Obama administration announced on Tuesday that more than 6 million Americans have obtained health...
The board of the closed Saint Paul’s College has named a new president in hopes of reopening the school. Millard D. “Pete” Stith Jr., pictured, will...
(Reuters) – The White House is coming under pressure from some of its closest allies on healthcare reform to name a chief executive to run its...
(Bloomberg) – Consumers waiting until the last minute to buy health coverage under Obamacare received a reprieve as a record number of users visited the U.S....
The Trinidad & Tobago-based Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) Tuesday said that for the first time, locally acquired cases of chikungunya have been detected in the...
(Black PR Wire) – The Historically Black College and University (HBCU) Wellness Project uses human and social capital in Tennessee to promote health and wellness in...
Design concept for the National Museum of African American History and Culture. IMAGE/David Adjaye The construction of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History...
Pro-Obamacare demostrators lobbying outside the U.S. Supreme Court. PHOTO/Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press More than two months after Obamacare’s debut, the number of Americans using the system is...
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at a World AIDS day event. PHOTO/Evan Vucci/AP U.S. President Barack Obama has announced a new initiative at the National Institutes...
The Caribbean has joined the rest of the global community in observing World AIDS Day by issuing a reminder to the region of the commitment to...
Anti stop and frisk demonstrators hold placards during a silent march in New York, June 17 2012. PHOTO/Seth Wenig/AP A federal appeals panel on Friday denied...
The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) raised over US$3.8 million during its recent annual Leadership Institute and Gala, which was held in Washington, DC for the...
Ghana President John Mahama. PHOTO/File Ghanaian President John Mahama and all his political appointees have taken a ten percent pay cut in order to boost a...
Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson In anticipation of the opening of the World AIDS Museum and Educational Center early next year, Earvin “Magic” Johnson dedicated the Museum on...
On October 15, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck Central Philippines, leaving, as of the latest count 222 people dead over 1000 people injured. Three weeks later...
Howard University has launched a new radio station that will showcase the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the United States. HBCU Sirius XM, located...
Wanda Alexis Alexander – President and CEO Horizon Consulting Incorporated. PHOTO/Wanda Alexander (BlackPRWire) – Lansdowne, Virginia – Horizon Consulting Incorporated announced that its President and CEO,...
Former United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (pictured), has rejected attempts at wooing her to Penn State University as a successor to President Rodney Erickson,...
Pro-Obamacare demostrators lobbying outside the U.S. Supreme Court. PHOTO/Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press (Reuters) – The Obama administration will release healthcare enrollment numbers for Obamacare’s rocky October rollout...
A stem cell emerging from rat bone marrow. PHOTO/Imperial College London Stem cell therapy could become a routine part of medical treatment in Jamaica, according to...
Trinidad & Tobago is among three countries with the highest cancer mortality rates in the Americas, according to a new report released by the Pan American...
Earvin “Magic” Johnson. PHOTO/File (Business Wire) – According to sports legend and entrepreneur Earvin “Magic” Johnson, the game of basketball is math and science in motion...
(PRNewswire) – Alexandria, Virginia – The Executive Leadership Foundation awarded the North Carolina Central University (a public historically black university – HBCU) a grant of US$350,000...
Artists’ impression of International African American Museum, Charleston, South Carolina Standing near where tens of thousands of African slaves landed in Charleston, Mayor Joseph P. Riley...
(BlackPRWire) – October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month; African American women should pay special attention. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Women’s...
Immediate past president of Tuskegee University Gilbert L. Rochon. PHOTO/Tuskegee University Gilbert L. Rochon has resigned as president of Tuskegee University. Dr. Matthew Jenkins has been...
(PRNewswire) – The government of Haiti questioned the findings of a recent report by the Walk Free Foundation on the alleged prevalence of “modern slavery” in...
Dr. Denis Mukwege. PHOTO/AFP Dr. Denis Mukwege was a contender for the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize. He is the founder medical director of Panzi Hospital –...
By Christopher Duff Steven Spielberg was rejected from his dream school, the University of Southern California, three times. Marilyn Monroe’s first contract with Columbia Pictures expired...
(Black PR Wire) – Clark Atlanta University received a US$3.4 million grant last month to implement and lead the Georgia-Alabama Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation...
By Christopher Duff It’s interesting how failing and being a failure aren’t as closely related as we think. Failure is a condition or a state of...
Barbados has confirmed 4 cases of influenza A H1N1 including one death. A statement from the island-nation’s Ministry of Health said that results from the 10...
(NNPA) – As Historically Black Colleges and Universities adapt to the rapidly changing educational landscape, advocates say that collaborative partnerships in business, in the community, and...
U.S. President Barack Obama is appointing the woman behind the television series “Scandal,” “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Private Practice” to the Kennedy Center’s board of trustees. Shonda...
Barbados is investigating two deaths associated with respiratory illnesses and is awaiting the results of tests being conducted by the Trinidad & Tobago-based Caribbean Public Health...
Barbados health authorities confirmed there have been more than 500 confirmed cases of dengue fever so far this year. The island-nations’ Ministry of Health in a...
(Black PR Wire) – Atlanta, Georgia – The Mass Media Arts Department at the Clark Atlanta University has formally adopted an academic internship program facilitated by...
Earvin “Magic” Johnson launched his “Friends of Magic” initiative in Chicago on Wednesday. The idea is to help at-risk students, including dropouts, graduate from high school....
Incoming Executive Director of the White House Initiative for Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Dr. George E. Cooper The Obama Administration announced a new leadership team...
By Christopher Duff There are three main stages to life: childhood, youth and adulthood. Each stage has something unique to offer. Childhood offers vibrancy, curiosity, imagination...
Carson Huey-You. PHOTO/Maddi Bruton/TCU360 Meet 11-year-old Carson Huey-You, who is going to be the youngest person to ever attend the Texas Christian University (TCU). Huey-You was...
Black PR Wire) – Washington, DC (August 2013) – U.S. Based African Embassies have tapped a fertile pipeline of African Americans with interests in their African...
U.N Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recommended a 15 percent reduction in the number of U.N. troops in Haiti last week and an examination of whether the beleaguered...
Students practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique at a school in Dominica. PHOTO/PRNewsFoto (PRNewswire) – Select schools throughout the Caribbean island-nation of Dominica have begun to employ...
Antoinette Tuff. PHOTO/Facebook Antoinette Tuff, an Atlanta school clerk, talked an AK-47-wielding gunman, Michael Brandon Hill, out of a hostage situation. Atlanta area police said that...
There is mounting concern in the Bahamas that the country is losing out on a potentially lucrative revenue stream to the Cayman Islands in light of...
The Barbados government says it will no longer pay tuition fees for nationals studying at the University of the West Indies (UWI). This was revealed by...
The U.S. Education Department, yielding to pressure from historically black colleges (HBCUs) and members of Congress, said Wednesday that it would reconsider recent changes to the...
Brig. Gen. Linda Singh. PHOTO/Maryland National Guard Public Affairs Office The Maryland Army National Guard is getting a new commander, who will be the first female...
By Christoper Duff The other day I watched the movie “Django Unchained” and what resonated with me was the look on the slaves faces, during some...
Henrietta Lacks in a 1940’s photo. PHOTO/The Henrietta Lacks Foundation Henrietta Lacks gains recognition, however, no financial compensation is paid to her descendants despite her HeLa...
A Yale University report released Tuesday argues that the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti should be held accountable for introducing cholera into the Caribbean nation....
(Black PR Wire) – Atlanta – Clark Atlanta University has been listed in the top 650 American colleges and universities by Forbes. Clark Atlanta University is...
The Prostate Health Education Network (PHEN) will host its “Ninth Annual African American Prostate Cancer Disparity Summit” on September 19th and September 20th in Washington, D.C....
The Ministry of Health in Dominica has issued an alert concerning an outbreak of dengue fever. So far seven cases of the disease have been confirmed...
By Chiamaka O. My Africa is not hungry. My Africa is just a giant that has failed to take giant strides. Africa as a continent has...
Cheryl Boone Isaacs A veteran publicist is the new president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The organization’s board of governors elected Cheryl...