Megan Thee Stallion is set to make her Broadway debut, and she’s making history with it! On Thursday, it was announced that she will be taking over the role of Zidler for a limited engagement. As Playbill noted, she “will make history as the first female-identifying performer to play the role not only in the Broadway production, […]
Mickey Joseph will continue to lead the Grambling football program for the foreseeable future. Thursday afternoon, Grambling announced the school and Joseph agreed to a two-year contract extension that will take the Tigers’ head coach through the 2027 season. The deal also features option years for the 2028 and 2029 seasons. Joseph, who replaced former
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North Carolina Central men’s basketball coach LeVelle Moton says he once declined a million-dollar coaching offer because of a promise he made during a recruiting visit. Speaking with HBCU Sports’ Chris Stevens, Moton said he has received significant interest throughout his tenure. “You can’t refrain from the conversation. There’s no avoiding it. It’s the inevitable,”
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After a hard-fought battle against CIAA South division champion Fayetteville State in the quarterfinals of the CIAA Basketball tournament, Bowie State head coach Darrell Brooks announced he is calling it a career after 16 years in the position. During the postgame press conference, Brooks said that he made the decision during the summer and chose
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Simmons College of Kentucky was founded in 1879 by members of the Kentuck State Convention of Colored Baptist Churches. The college speaks of its founding, stating, In 1865, members of the Kentucky State Convention of Colored Baptist Churches proposed the creation of Kentucky’s first post-secondary educational institution dedicated to the education of Black citizens. This
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Morehouse College announced it has received a prestigious grant from the National Science Foundation as part of a $457 million initiative to build one of the most powerful academic supercomputers in the Southeast. The historic investment in higher education cyberinfrastructure will significantly expand access to advanced computational resources for Morehouse students and faculty, as well
For more than four decades, Career Communications Group (CCG) has stood at the intersection of talent, opportunity, and national competitiveness. As publisher of US Black Engineer & Information Technology, Hispanic Engineer, Women of Color, Science Spectrum magazines, and convener of the BEYA STEM Conference—founded and sponsored by the Council of Engineering Deans of HBCUs—CCG has
An HBCU student-athlete is dead following a domestic violence incident on the campus of the University of Missouri. Per a report by ABC 17 News, Denita Jackson has been charged with second-degree murder and armed criminal action following the stabbing of her boyfriend, Kevaughn Goldson. Both Goldson and Jackson were part of the track and field team.
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Central State University announced this week that it will lay off more than a dozen faculty members at the end of the current academic year as part of a broader effort to address deepening financial challenges and comply with newly enacted state legislation affecting public higher education. According to university communications, at least 16 professors received notices
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By David K. Li Oliver “Power” Grant, an original member of the seminal early 1990s hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan, has died, the New York City-based group said Wednesday. He was 52. “Rest in Power, Power,” the group said Wednesday on X. WQHT-FM, the iconic New York radio station known as Hot 97 that played a notable role in the
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