It will be the first design-focused HBCU. A Portland footwear designer is leading the effort to reopen the only historically Black college in Michigan. The City of Detroit announced this week that the Lewis College of Business is set to reopen for students in 2022, Click On Detroit reports. The HBCU was founded in 1928…
EXCLUSIVE: Recent reports and social media posts falsely conflated the White House’s commitment to HBCUs and Congress cutting tens of billions of dollars from President Biden’s proposed budget. The Biden administration is actively refuting misinformation circulating about the president’s financial commitment to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Recent reports and social media posts falsely…
Catch Chef Samuelsson on Daymond John’s “Black Entrepreneurs Day” streaming Thursday at 7 p.m. EST. Marcus Samuelsson, chef and founder of the Red Rooster restaurant in Harlem, New York, joins business tycoon Daymond John and a host of other famed entrepreneurs for the second annual Black Entrepreneurs Day. The event was filmed at Harlem’s legendary…
A cause of death has not yet been revealed R&B singer Emani 22, — born Emani Johnson — most known for songs like “Feelings” and “Inside,” featuring rapper Trippie Redd, has died at age 22. A cause of death has not yet been revealed. In a statement to PEOPLE, record producer J Maine confirmed her…
EXCLUSIVE: Weeks after U.S. Border Patrol’s ‘whip’ scandal, new complaint says WRAP device used by officers violates civil and human rights On the heels of an ongoing investigation at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security into the mistreatment of Haitian migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border last month, Black immigrant advocates say the abuses of Black…
Agnes Jebet Tirop of Kenya celebrates winning bronze in the Women’s 10,000 Metres final during day two of 17th IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 at Khalifa International Stadium on September 28, 2019, in Doha, Qatar. | Source: Alexander Hassenstein / Getty The husband of a Kenyan Olympic long-distance runner who was found dead this…
Shaquille O’Neal is a superhero in many of his fans’ eyes. His legendary skills on the basketball court and his hunky stature earned him a status that led to several people looking up to him. But what many may not recall is that O’Neal was an actual superhero in the late ’90s. He played the…
OPINION: Blue Telusma’s harrowing experience with a health-care provider carries a warning for Black folks Over the summer I wrote an article about a medical scare that rocked my world and made me re-assess the way I approach just about everything. “During the first week of July 2021, as everyone in Los Angeles was preparing…
The historically Black fraternity to which Jelani Day belonged is calling on federal law enforcement officials to either join or take over the existing investigation into the graduate student’s death in Illinois. Members of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. and the Nu Epsilon chapter at Alabama A&M University, a historically Black college where Day attended,…
Lilli Bernard, in front, is shown outside Montgomery County Court House as Bill Cosby appears before Judge Steven O’Neil, in Norristown, PA, on September 24, 2018, after a jury found the 81-year-old entertainer guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault in an April 2018 retrial. | Source: NurPhoto / Getty Bill Cosby is speaking…
