The Pennsylvania state university system has agreed to forgive $30 million in loans to Cheyney University, if it can maintain a balanced budget over the next four years, saving the struggling HBCU from closure.
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Historically Black beach enclaves are fighting to save their history and identity
Chokwe Antar Lumumba became the youngest mayor in the history of Jackson, Miss., when he was sworn-in last month in front of a standing room-only crowd at Jacksonās Convention Center Complex.
Bill Cosby has hired former Michael Jackson attorney Tom Mesereau to lead his defense team going into the November retrial of the comedianās sexual assault case.
Black colleges still waiting
But during back-to-school season, he refuses to donate free back-packs and school supplies.
Dick Gregory dies at 84
The NAACP mourns the death of comedic legend and civil rights icon Dick Gregory, who passed away today at age 84.
Symbols of hatred and racism should not be venerated
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.