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MacKenzie Scott, HBCU donations
November 19, 2025
MacKenzie Scott continues to give. After her latest donation, the billionaire has donated nearly $1 billino to HBCUs nationwide in…
Life Hacks with Liana, HBCUs, tips for freshman year, theGrio.com
August 29, 2024
Ashley Maclin, best known as ASHMAC, joins "Life Hacks with Liana" for a discussion on HBCUs and tips to navigate…
2024 HBCU Commencement, HBCU Grad, graduation season, Angela Bassett Spelman College, Clark Atlanta University commencement speaker, CAU commencement speech, Al Roker Fisk University, FAMU donation, Gregory Gerami FAMU, Deborah Roberts Fisk University, what happened at Howard University graduation?, Howard 2024 graduation, Morehouse graduation joe biden theGrio.com
May 21, 2024
Like the college experience, the 2024 graduation season presented unique ebbs and flows.
Black, entrepreneurs, bill, theGrio.com
December 1, 2023
The bill would create a program within the SBA to allow higher education institutions that serve minorities to apply for…
October 25, 2023
TheGrio spoke to graduates from Historically Black Colleges and Universities and they share why attending an HBCU is important.
October 19, 2023
A group of appreciative Black college graduates discuss the positive impact of joining The Divine Nine sororities and fraternities.
October 11, 2023
For homecoming season, HBCU graduates share do's and don'ts for students currently enrolled and proud alumni returning.
August 15, 2023
Marybeth Gasman, one of the nation's foremost experts on HBCUs --- Historically Black Colleges and Universities -
scholarship
August 1, 2023
The Future of STEM Scholars Initiative (FOSSI) has welcomed 132 new scholarship recipients from 26 states who will study at…
July 12, 2023
A key objective of the program is to expose the Black college community to the inner workings of the Las…
Fisk Jubilee Singers Unveil "HERITAGE
April 12, 2023
Wilberforce University has named Vann Newkirk as the new president of the country's oldest private historically Black college.
January 24, 2023
The school is the first HBCU (Historically Black College and University) to secure a Pentagon contract for research development
January 4, 2023
The president of Johnson C. Smith University will retire this summer from the historically Black university in North Carolina.
December 12, 2022
Hip-hop superstar Missy Elliott was awarded an honorary doctorate from Norfolk State University on Saturday.
November 10, 2022
Actress Wendy Raquel Robinson has been tapped to host the inaugural HBCU Honors award show, which is slated for 2023.
November 7, 2022
An HBCU dropout has spent the past two years raising money for students to attend historically black colleges and universities. 
Byron Allen Allen Media Group
October 27, 2022
Starting next spring, HBCU BA grants HBCU GO cable, linear, streaming, broadcast, VOD and PPV rights to premiere its games.
Ivana Rich, theGrio.com
October 26, 2022
Ivana Rich has been tapped by Edward Waters University to serve as its new executive vice president and athletic director. 
October 12, 2022
Florida A&M University tapped Tiffani-Dawn Sykes as the new director of athletic, its second female director of athletics in school…
September 15, 2022
HBCU GO partners with Pensole Lewis College of Business & Design to stream and showcase content.