Sep 21, 2026 | HBCU, Leadership, Sports
HBCU conference commissioners, university presidents and corporate partners gathered Tuesday, Sept. 15, in Washington for the Salute to HBCU Sports Leadership Reception at Gensler in Washington, D.C., according to HBCU News. The invitation-only event brought together...
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,...
