Cafeteria fight at Ala. State University caught on tape
VIDEO - NBC News affiliate WSFA interviewed Alabama State University students who felt embarrassed by the fight and the image...
Educators seek out more minorities to study abroad
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Barriers often include lack of funds, fear of racism, worries about delayed graduation, and few role models -- either family or faculty -- who have traveled abroad...
TheGrio's 100: John Silvanus Wilson, Jr., helping White House relate to HBCUs
TheGrio's 100 - President Obama set the goal for the U.S. to have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world by 2020 - and then appointed John Silvanus Wilson, Jr. to help reach it...
Slideshow: What has Obama done for black America in 2010?
SLIDESHOW - In light of the bad economy and attacks on Obama from all directions, the public has lost sight of the many accomplishments of the nation's first black president...
White man leads NAACP chapter at JSU
"I never thought I'd live to see this happen," says 88-year-old Charles Evers, a longtime Mississippi civil rights activist...
Study: Black students who attend HBCUs more successful in math, technology
On Monday, The Commission released its annual briefing report on The Educational Effectiveness of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)...
Why Walter Kimbrough is the 'hip-hop college president'
OPINION - Philander Smith is a small historically black college in Little Rock, Arkansas, and was pretty known for being pretty much unknown. Enter Dr. Walter Kimbrough...
The Young, Gifted & Black: A look at African-American education
OPINION - The status quo is unacceptable, the comfortable need to be afflicted, and when it comes to the education of our students, no matter what age, they all deserve the best...
Wired up? HBCUs look to increase online ed presence
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Blacks comprised about 12 percent of total enrollment in higher education in 2007 but were 21 percent of students at for-profit institutions -- many of which are online...
Slideshow: The HBCU Homecoming experience
SLIDESHOW - From the talented marching bands, campus step shows, to seeing your favorite music artists perform on 'the yard'; an HBCU homecoming is like none other...
