HBCU Stories: Margaret Murray Washington – The Fisk Alumna Behind the Tuskegee Machine
– The following Op-Ed appeared in the March 7, 2012 issue of HBCU Digest – In the more than half century since the publication of W.E.B. Du Bois’ The Souls […]
Monthly Archives: March 2012
Let’s Talk About Sex! HBCUs Fight Against STIs Through Sex Education
E. Clare Stewart is graduate of Fisk University and Meharry Medical College, School of Graduate Studies and Research. She currently serves as the Community Coordinator for the HBCU Wellness Project at Fisk […]
Hoodied Up: TSU Tigers Host Trayvon Martin Tribute
All across the nation, students, faculty and administrators at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) are galvanizing the push for justice in the death of 17 year-old Trayvon Martin. Students […]
Standing Up for Trayvon Martin: The HBCUstory of Fiskite and Congresswoman Frederica Wilson
It is impossible for members of the Historically Black College and University (HBCU) community to remain unmoved by the senseless and heinous murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in a gated […]
HBCU Wellness Project: Five Tennessee HBCUs Partner to Impact Lives
E. Clare Stewart is graduate of Fisk University and Meharry Medical College, School of Graduate Studies and Research. She currently serves as the Community Coordinator for the HBCU Wellness Project at Fisk […]
Payback, HBCU-Style: The HBCUstory of Norfolk State’s Kyle O’Quinn
Now that the Norfolk State University Spartans’ 2011-2012 basketball season has come to an end, pundits will hastily move on to the next big thing in college basketball. But on […]
West Virginia State: Repurposed & Repowered at 122
West Virginia State University was founded on March 16, 1890 with the aid of Hampton University alumnus and Tuskegee University founder Booker T. Washington under the provisions of the Second Morrill Act […]
HBCU Stories: The Christian General and the Founding of Howard University
– The following Op-Ed appeared in the March 7, 2012 issue of HBCU Digest – One hundred and forty five years ago, just after the dawning of freedom, ten members […]
Dear Langston U. Let’s Celebrate You at 115
Established on March 12, 1897 as the Colored Agricultural and Normal University (CANU), Langston University was founded in the all-black town of Langston, Oklahoma. Led by its first President Inman […]
Happy Birthday Aggies!
On this day in 1891, North Carolina Agicultural and Technical State University was founded in Greensboro, NC. Known for its world-famous “Greensboro Four”–Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair Jr. (later known as Jibreel Khazan), Joseph […]
