There are more than 100 historically black colleges and universities (also known as HBCUs) across the country, each born during a time when the doors of the nation’s most prestigious universities were firmly shut to minorities.
Years later, these schools stand tall as icons of minority higher education, producing some of the nation’s most successful black professionals. Historically black colleges and universities all have shared history and goals, but they’re far from the same – and keeping up with them can be a challenge.
Let HBCULifestyle be your guide to each of the nation’s unique historically black colleges and universities. We offer diverse news that’s fresh, accurate and keeps you up to date on your favorite black colleges. Make important academic decisions using our guides to HBCU rankings and top HBCU education programs. Gain inspiration from our features on HBCU alumni making a difference. Or find important dates for events at your favorite historically black colleges and universities.
News out of black colleges is as diverse as the schools themselves. Look to HBCU Lifestyle to keep you in the know.
The Black College Football Hall of Fame announced its seven newest members on October 23, 2013 in Atlanta, GA. The Class of 2014 includes six players and one coach. The inductees were selected from a list of 25 finalists who had been determined earlier by the Black College Football Hall of Fame Selection Committee. These […]
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Surviving college as HBCU students truly means more than getting your college degree and going out in the world to get a job. It means more than accepting the conditions of the present just to say that you are a college student. What it does represent is the past battles that was began being waged
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The votes are in and eight of the top Historically Black College and University (HBCU) marching bands have been selected to perform at the 12th Annual Honda Battle of the Bands 2014 Invitational Showcase. Widely known within the marching band community as “The Honda,” the Invitational Showcase is the culmination of the Honda Battle of
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As, you know we are in the worse financial crisis on a global scale that has ever been recorded. All over the world we are witnessing distress on this planet at an alarming rate. There are wars, famines, earthquakes, floods, and volcano eruptions that is signaling the changing of the seasons. Despite the bleak realities
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Implementing success into any aspect of your life requires; patience, diligence, perseverance, fortitude, hard work, passion, and little bit of luck. There are numerous of examples of individuals who were able to implement success into their college experiences. Take for example George Lewis Ruffin (1834-1886) who was the 1st black to graduate from Harvard University
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Your responsibility in this 21st century will hinge on being able to learn from many conceptual frameworks of study. You have to become an all around individual and that can mean being able to learn from many different sources of information. The times have presented themselves where all college students must incorporate finance as a
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There is no real secret to investing that lays out a path that you can jump on and ride the waves of success. You have to first and foremost set in motion a sufficient plan of action for multiple generations ahead of time. If you are not beginning with the end in mind towards your
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It’s back – the polls are open and tickets are on-sale now, for the 2014 Honda Battle of the Bands Invitational Showcase. For 12 years, the top Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) marching bands have participated in this music performance program, which begins with a month-long voting process where fans help determine which eight
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