Sep 14, 2026 | HBCU, Politics, Voting
When the leaky roof of her crumbling New Orleans high school left rain-drenched students huddled in moldy classrooms, Alaina Zelaya helped rally her community to demand improvements to school facilities. Now a junior at Tuskegee University in Alabama, Zelaya is...
Sep 14, 2026 | HBCU, Music
Nine historically Black colleges and universities brought their marching bands to Savannah on Sunday for the 2026 Big HBCU Battle of the Bands: Battle for the South. Alex Davis, president of the Big HBCU Battle of the Bands, said the organization is national and that...
Aug 31, 2026 | HBCU, Higer Education, Men
Benedict College is launching a new HBCU initiative focused on Black male student success after receiving a $100,000 grant from The Boulé Foundation to support its newly established B.E.S.T. Leadership Institute. The Columbia, South Carolina, institution announced the...
Aug 10, 2026 | HBCU, Higer Education
A new report from InsideTrack found that a five-year coaching initiative across 39 HBCUs boosted attainment among both current and stopped-out students. Stopped-out students who received coaching re-enrolled at a rate of 6.9 percent—2.5 times the national average—with...
Aug 10, 2026 | HBCU, Higer Education, Leadership
Mason is best known for creating the Common Black College Application, or CBCA, a portal that allows prospective students to apply to over 60 HBCUs, like Morehouse College, Claflin University and Tennessee State University, all at once for an affordable,...
Aug 3, 2026 | HBCU, Higer Education
On Friday, an invitation-only ceremony was held at Martha’s Vineyard to unveil the first set of results from “Proof of Promise: The Lasting Value and Impact of an HBCU Education,” a survey of alumni of dozens of HBCUs concerning their college experiences and...
