.Rosalind "Roz" Brewer says a historic $100 million donation to Spelman College shows that “it’s worth investing in HBCUs more broadly.” Dr. Helene Gayle tells CBS Mornings how the school plans to use the money in “securing the future” for students in the years to come.

Happening now! In honor of our founder #ArturoSchomburg's 150th birthday today, we're having a transcribe-a-thon for his newly digitized papers. It's partnership with Fisk University in Nashville. #SchomburgCenter

New book authors! Please consider #HBCU campuses in those fancy book tour plans-and not just the high profile campuses. As a student Talladega College back in the day, campus visits by authors meant everything!

The Sonic Boom of the South has been booked and busy! In case you missed it, Jackson State University's Sonic Boom of the South just performed at the Super Bowl Halftime Show featuring Usher Raymond IV! #SBLVIII #SuperBowl2024

Thank you to the UL System board and Grambling State Univ #GramFam My heart is full. I look forward to our work together.

We are excited to announce the inaugural ACLS HBCU Faculty Fellows and Grantees! This year, the program will support 20 HBCU faculty scholars pursuing exceptional research projects in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. bit.ly/3wAUqNH

Morgan Price, a Fisk University sophomore, has become the first gymnast from an HBCU to win a national title hbcugameday.com/2024/04/12/hbc…

I got so excited about the B&N special that I shared the book cover without giving it a special "debut announcement." I am thrilled to share the cover of my next book, A FORGOTTEN MIGRATION. Isn't it beautiful?!? 1/

I will enjoy my life, but I will miss everyone at fiskuniversity ,I have been here for 5 years, and i truly love it,My daughter graduated from here ! I don 't know what else to say !!!

I'm excited to announce the publication of my article, "'A New Era of Black Thought': Revisiting Gil Scott-Heron and the HBCU Protest Novel," in the latest issue of The Vermont Connection! scholarworks.uvm.edu/tvc/vol45/iss1…

Yes. In 1984 Robert Satcher Sr. served briefly as interim president of Fisk University while his brother David was president of Meharry Medical College across the street. I'm sure there are probably other more recent examples.

Civil rights activist, scholar Albany State University Spelman College Howard University alumna Bernice Johnson Reagon has died at age 81. Founder of #SNCC Freedom Singers and Sweet Honey in the Rock. Emeritus faculty American University; scholar-in-residence Stanford University npr.org/2024/07/17/121…

Meharry received an $175M endowment from Bloomberg Philanthropies! This monumental donation speaks volumes about our nearly 150-year impact in health care. Join us in celebrating and read more about the announcement here! home.mmc.edu/meharry-medica…

In 1991 Esther Rolle starred in a one woman play on Mrs. Bethune, which was titled Bethune. The play was written by Steve Carter and directed by Curtis King. Check out the play! #marymcleodbethune texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/met…

Please encourage students to submit a 5-10 minute film on any aspect of the rich history and culture of HBCUs. There will be cash prizes and the opportunity for students to screen their films in front of a national audience.

Devastating news out of Historic Knoxville College tonight... story is developing.

On the scene for Tennessee Lookout || tnlookout.bsky.social Knoxville College, East Tennessee’s only HBCU is on fire tonight. Leaders have been working to bring the beloved school back to glory through reaccreditation efforts.

“The Black University already exists; it’s for us to recognize it, not to create it. Our work is crystal-clear. The question is, are we teachers ready to learn—are we leaders ready to follow?” Nikki Giovanni “I Fell off the Roof One Day (A View of the Black University) 1969

So excited to see my article on James Weldon Johnson's teaching career at Fisk University in the latest special issue of Callaloo Journal!