HBCUs continue to do the heavy lifting of educating this country’s future Black physicians and health professionals. Xavier University of Louisiana and Ochsner Health have agreed to form the fifth HBCU medical school in the country.

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Link: thegrio.com/2024/04/29/xav…

I’m looking forward to being in conversation with the brilliant Kellie Carter Jackson!

Charles W. Chesnutt's grave site Lake View Cemetery

This is great, Zoë Burkholder!

Happy 80th birthday to UNCF! With over 500,000 students empowered to pursue their college dreams, UNCF has been a beacon of education equity and economic mobility. Here's to transforming lives and shaping futures! #UNCF80

#OnThisDay in 1951, Ruby Hurley opened the first permanent office of the NAACP in the South.

Her introduction to civil rights activism began when she helped organize Marian Anderson’s 1939 concert at the Lincoln Memorial. Four years later, she became national youth secretary

Speaking at Salem Missionary Baptist Church in Lilburn, GA, this morning. My first public speaking opportunities came in a Missionary Baptist Church in NC many moons ago. I will forever be grateful for the church mothers and deacons who taught me to be confident & enunciate.

Congratulations! I can’t wait to read it, Magana J. Kabugi, Ph.D.!

#NCCUCommunity | Tomorrow, Angus McLean Hall will be officially renamed Debra Saunders-White Residence Hall. This change is due to the advocacy of Derrick Stanfield, an NCCU alumnus who led the initiative during his tenure as SGA President. Check out CBS 17's coverage.

We commemorate the 30th anniversary of the first democratic elections in South Africa with an online forum. Check out our first essay of the roundtable. Amanda Joyce Hall 🔥🔥

Winston Salem State University's nursing program has achieved a flawless 100% pass rate for the NCLEX in 2023
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Was talking about Looby last night…he did so much underappreciated work to expand educational opportunity for African Americans in TN. #AForgottenMigration

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#OnThisDay in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” on scraps of paper and in the margins of newspapers. “I am in Birmingham because injustice is here,” he wrote.

Jail trusties passed his words to his lawyers, who transformed the handwriting into

Congratulations, Christopher Tounsel!