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“Howard is the only federally chartered HBCU, signed into law by President Johnson… who was an open misogynist and racist… he created a university that would give rise to the first Black woman, the first Black, female vice president.” https://t.co/lKDSaXM8sN
Amber Fuller had the best time overall - she even beat the boys - in the 20-yard dash at the @usta All-American College Combine at 2.61 seconds. pic.twitter.com/S1w1cglQUA
π¨π Congratulations are in order for former @SpartanBSB coach and athletics director Marty Miller, who was announced Wednesday as a member of the 2022 class of the American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame!
Shortly after the fraught fight over Nikole Hannah-Jones's tenure at UNC-Chapel Hill spilled into public view, the New York Times journalist had her first conversation with the president of Howard University.https://t.co/aGgNJzwe9d
— The Chronicle of Higher Education (@chronicle) July 7, 2021
#justin Ghanaian sprint sensation Joseph Paul Amoah has confirmed, he will be focusing on his preferred events 200m and 4x100m during this Summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo, making him unavailable to compete in the 100m event. #AthleticsHour#Ghanapic.twitter.com/x6rcNRqwSY
“You can play baseball a long time, have a lot of fun, and make a lot of money. But right now, this sport is not for us, and we know that. If the game doesn’t change, it’s going to be in trouble, and not just with Black people.” – @CC_Sabathiahttps://t.co/MwerOJUYov
Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates discuss joining Howard University’s faculty this fall. Nikole Hannah-Jones explains why she chose to go to Howard University after being offered tenure at UNC-Chapel Hill, after this institution first denied tenure to this celebrated journalist, leading to a public outcry.
Nikole Hannah-Jones announced the establishment of the Center for Journalism and Democracy at Howard. https://t.co/7L1pDNrdy5
TODAY: @HowardU’s new Knight Chair in Race and Journalism will help train the next generation of Black journalists. Howard has selected @nhannahjones as the inaugural chair. Knight president @ibarguen shares more about the new role: https://t.co/AnOMPBJFuT (THREAD 1/2)
The $5 million grant from the Knight Foundation, the third funder, will include a $500,000 investment to launch a symposium that aims to strengthen the teaching of journalism across various historically Black colleges and universities, according to a statement from the foundation, which has an endowed chair of journalism at Florida A&M University, which is also a historically Black college.