Fashion collective Brooklyn Circus combines a seriously cultivated throwback aesthetic with clean, contemporary tailoring to create wonderfully unique looks (that also happen to be wearable). But that’s not all they’re up to. We asked founder Ouigi Theodore about Brooklyn Circus’s engagement with the world beyond fashion (touring historically black colleges, working to end the use […]
HBCU b Healthy Tour Hits the Road!
Greater Than AIDS and b Condoms are teaming up this fall to bring HIV awareness to the mid-Atlantic, South, and Southeast through the HBCU b Healthy Tour. The HBCU b Healthy Tour aims to inspire, unite, and leverage attendance at HBCU campuses, football classics, and homecomings to promote health and wellness, raise awareness about health […]
Microsoft Donates $8 Million Grant to Thurgood Marshall College Fund
Microsoft Corporation has recently announced that it will be renewing its partnership with the Thurgood Marshall College Fund through an additional $8 million software grant. This recent grant brings the total donation amount given by the Microsoft Corporation to $29 million, and will provide software for TMCF’s 47-member network of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. […]
Minority in a Minority: Jews Attend Traditional Black Colleges
On a recent Friday afternoon, an employee of a university here, passing through the Student Center building, noticed a student he knew sitting in a lounge and called out, “Shalom, Abe.” The school is Morgan State University, a historically black institution in the northeast corner of the city; the employee is Donald Hill-Eley, a devout […]
LeBron James And Kevin Durant, Spreading The Gospel at Morgan State
Thousands of fans descended on Morgan State’s tiny campus on Tuesday, and between purchasing tickets and waiting with 4,500 people to go through four metal detectors, it took me about two-and-half hours to finally make it to a seat, and that would’ve been on the low end compared to most fans. But that’s part of […]
AT&T, Russ Parr and Rickey Smiley bring You The HBCU Tailgate Tour
The Rickey Smiley and Russ Parr Morning Shows will become the official tailgate party for Historically Black Colleges andt Universities (HBCU) football classic games and homecoming events, and AT&T is proud to sponsor the upcoming HBCU Tailgate Tour. Rickey Smiley and Russ Parr will provide non-stop entertainment. The tour in each market will include karaoke […]
Miss Hampton University featured in Ebony magazine as Top 10 HBCU queen
HAMPTON — Dressed in a little black dress, stiletto-high platform heels and showing off toned legs, Miss Hampton University is listed as “The Dream Girl” in Ebony magazine’s annual campus queens edition. Desiree Williams, a 2011 HU graduate, was flown to Atlanta for a photo shoot along with nine other campus queens who were among […]
How Companies Are Using Social Media To Hire / Fire Employees [Infographic]
That picture of you from a college tailgate chugging a beer with your frat bros might have been a great memory, and no one will ever be able to take that away from you. But if the prospect of gainful employment sounds like something that interests you, that photo should probably be deleted. In the […]
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