National News

By Trisha Powell Crain ACT scores for Alabama’s high school class of 2021 were down slightly, from 18.61 to 18.58 according to the Public Affairs Research Council of Alabama. This is the fourth year in a row […]

By Mike Cason, Associated Press President Joe Biden has appointed Alabama State University President Quinton Ross to the President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The White House announced the 18 members […]

By Lauren Victoria Burke Shifting funds from the Department of Education to assist Historically Black Colleges and Universities experiencing sporadic bomb threats, several top officials in the Biden Administration spoke out. Over the last two […]

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent NNPA NEWSWIRE — The bureau estimated that the 2020 census incorrectly counted 18.8 million residents, double-counting some, wrongly including others, and missing others entirely, even as […]

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent The Supreme Court said it will reconsider race-based affirmative action in college admissions. The Monday, January 24, announcement could eliminate campus practices that have widely benefitted […]

By Alisha Ebrahimji, Holly Yan and Paul P. Murphy, CNN (CNN) A growing number of historically Black colleges and universities have had to lock down or postpone classes due to bomb threats on the first […]

By Leada Gore April 15 is traditionally tax deadline day for the Internal Revenue Service. That’s not the case in 2022, however, and the change has to do with a holiday in the federal capital. […]

By Savannah Koplon, University of Alabama in Birmingham (UAB) He was raised in relative obscurity in Cleveland, Ohio, but his unique talent with the guitar helped the R&B supergroup, The O’Jays, ultimately make it to […]