Spelman College, the nation’s top HBCU for women, is considering accepting transgender students. The news was announced by the college’s president late last week. The AJC.com reports: President Mary Schmidt Campbell included the information in a welcome back letter to the campus community on Thursday and posted on the private school’s website. Spelman is the […]

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Roland Martin, host of NewsOne Now, is not known to mince words or pull punches when setting someone straight. Last week, Martin took his no bias, no bull fact-checking to the door of longtime TV host Wendy Williams. If you remember, Martin took her to task for her comments about Jesse Williams‘ BET Black Lives Matter […]

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Social media blasted Wendy Williams for her comments about Jesse Williams‘ BET Black Lives Matter speech, HBCUs, and the NAACP after a clip from her show went viral this week. During Thursday’s edition of NewsOne Now, Roland Martin decided to educate the talk show host on the topics that have caused so many to raise […]

National

The National Trust for Historic Preservation is ensuring that historic places on HBCU campuses are preserved. After announcing that Howard University’s Founders Library will be named a national treasure in February, it was recently revealed that Morgan State University will receive the same honor. The institution and the National Trust will team up to create […]

Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential frontrunner, has promised to revitalize historically black colleges if she is elected to the White House. “We’re going to work…

National

Hillary Clinton answers questions during a special roundtable forum with Tom Joyner, Sybil Wilkes, Don Lemon, Jacque Reid and Roland Martin

Tom Joyner Morning Show

Southern’s home field advantage hasn’t been much of an advantage for the Jaguars against SWAC rival Jackson State in recent years as the Tigers hadn’t…

Tom Joyner Morning Show

Fans of Black College Football can expect an intriguing and highly competitive 2015 season. The season gets underway Thursday night with defending Black College National…

Remember those Spelman girls? Specifically, twins Kristie and Kirstie Bronner (yep, of the Bronner Bros. hair extravaganzas and company), who were the historic HBCU Spelman…

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Despite the distressing state of historically black colleges and universities, there are individuals working within the education institutions who are working hard to drive change.…

  Denny’s CEO John Miller didn’t want to call in his good news to the Tom Joyner Morning Show, so he actually came down to…

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From the stage of the Ray Charles Performing Arts Center at the second-annual Platform Summit, held October 24-26, 2014 on the campus of Morehouse College,…