"The video prominently features the iconic Founders Library, the first site at an HBCU to be named a national treasure, which had yet to be constructed. In addition, most of the people depicted in the audience on The Yard are not Black, which belies the institution’s history as one of the country’s foremost colleges with a predominantly Black student body."

https://thedig.howard.edu/all-stories/bts-how-howard-university-helped-elevate-korean-culture-and-how-black-culture-influenced-k-pop

#aapi #aanhpi #BlackMastodon #HBCU #music #kpop #BTS #BTSARMY

Howard Men’s and Women’s Basketball Capture MEAC Regular Season Titles, Earn No. 1 Seeds in Conference Tournament

Howard's welcome for Korean students in the 1890s led to global history-making, and today the world's top K-Pop group follows in their footsteps.

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100-year-old Dr. Grady James serves as credentialed photographer during MEAC Tournament

Dr. Grady James, a 100-year-old professor emeritus at Norfolk State University, served as a photographer at the MEAC Tournament.

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Rebuilding what was extracted: Black entrepreneurship, HBCUs and Missouri's future • Missouri Independent

When Black-owned businesses thrive, they create jobs, stabilize neighborhoods, and contribute to local financial infrastructure.

Missouri Independent

Access changes outcomes. This year, #BICVillage is working toward our goal of sponsoring 50 #HBCU students to attend #DEFCON

Expanding access to hands-on learning, community and career pathways in #Cybersecurity. 🖤

blacksincyberconf.com/bic-village

Donate: givebutter.com/BICHBCU

Access changes outcomes. This year, #BICVillage is working toward our goal of sponsoring 50 #HBCU students to attend #DEFCON

Expanding access to hands-on learning, community and career pathways in #Cybersecurity. 🖤

blacksincyberconf.com/bic-village

Donate: givebutter.com/BICHBCU

FAMU SDS joins FAMU's legacy of struggle

Tallahassee, FL – On February 12, over a dozen students of Florida A&M University gathered at the university’s iconic Eternal Flame to stand up against the consolidation of numerous degree programs, including the university’s Black history programs.

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https://fightbacknews.org/articles/famu-sds-joins-famus-legacy-of-struggle

“‘We have a combined 90 years of service to the Commonwealth,’ Temu said. The six professors also brought in $10 million in grant funding this year alone.

None has received written documentation about their termination …. Some of the fired faculty members were replaced with ‘recently hired more junior research scientists’”
#labor #education #hbcu
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/tenure/2026/02/25/vsu-terminates-6-professors-without-due-process

VSU Terminates 6 Professors Without Due Process

Campus security escorted the professors—five tenured and one tenure-track—to their cars and issued no-trespass warnings. They have received no written explanation for their dismissals.

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Working at a historically Black university and missing the Black History Month convocation would be like — well, I don't know what it would be like. I never miss it.

#XULA #BlackHistory #HBCU

Southern U’s Sonic Boom of the South is on one of the screens at this bar and I wish that’s what we were hearing instead of the jukebox.

#MarchingArts #MarchingBand #HBCU

We are just getting started on @[email protected] & http://sxm.app.link/NFLRadio with @[email protected] & yours truly until 3p ET. We'll take closer looks at the #Dolphins with @Marcel_LJ & the #HBCU Legacy Bowl with @[email protected].