Nation Feb 19 How this all-Black swim team is making waves in college sports By Stephanie Sy, Andrew Corkery
Education Oct 05 Black colleges’ funding hopes dim amid federal budget battle They now stand to receive just a small fraction of the original amount, perhaps as little as $2 billion in competitive grant funding that could be used for educational programs and infrastructure. By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, Annie Ma, Associated Press
Education May 20 Watch 8:40 What do struggling historically black colleges like SC State need to do to survive? Students graduating from South Carolina State are no different from most recent grads: diploma in hand, they look forward to a bright future. But their alma mater’s future is more uncertain. The historically black college is facing mounting financial troubles… By PBS News Hour
Education May 19 Threatened with closure, one historically black university charts a path to recovery When Darian James walks across the South Carolina State campus in her hometown of Orangeburg she sees a place where much of her life to this point has played out. It’s the place where she went to preschool through middle… By Kyla Calvert Mason
Nation Mar 18 We need to talk about racism on college campuses Following the release of a video showing the members of University of Oklahoma’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon chanting racist slurs, the conversation of racism on college campuses has been refreshed. How have campus newspapers responded to the disturbing images?… By Eric Krupke, Jasmine Wright
Jun 06 Koch brothers to give $25 million to United Negro College Fund By Kimberly Hefling, Associated Press African-Americans are a key constituency within the Democratic Party. But Michael Lomax, president and CEO of UNCF, said that since the organization's inception in 1944, it has reached out to people of all backgrounds for support without an "ideological lens"… Continue reading