Father Augustus Tolton was born into slavery just outside of Hannibal in Ralls County, Missouri in 1854. He would go on to become the first recognized African American priest to be ordained by the Roman Catholic Church in the United States in 1886 at the age of 31. ...

Hampton student builds bridge between young Black girls and the sciences ...

The Center for Cancer Research and Therapeutic Development (CCRTD) at Clark Atlanta University, together with the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) and Vancouver Prostate Centre, has been awarded a $1.5 million grant by the Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Research Program ...

The Academic-Practice Partnerships Enhance Advanced Learning (APPEAL) project is supported by a new two-year, $1.3 million grant received by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) this summer. ...

SWAC to discontinue football championship game ...

Already the state’s third most productive public research university, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University took in a school-record $62.5 million in research contracts and grants in 2016-17, school leaders announced recently ...

Hampton University, a dynamic, progressive institution of higher education and a leader among the nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU’s), has begun preparations for twin celebrations in 2018 – the university’s 150th anniversary of its founding as Hampton Institute in 1868, and a celebration of the unparalleled executive tenure of Dr. William R. Harvey, HU’s president for the past 40 ...

Violet Mosses Brown from Jamaica eats whatever she wants. It seems to have worked well for her because she is now the oldest living human in the world and has no major illnesses. ...

The last two Black-Owned grocery stores in America? ...

Florida Legislators make the right choice to help children of incarcerated parents ...