Dr. Boyce Watkins interviews university student athletes Monique Roberts, Sharay Hale and Kyra Coldwell   Click to Watch

      Why didn’t Dr. Dre give to an HBCU instead of to a wealthy university that does almost nothing for the black community?  Dr. Walter M.. Kimbrough speaks with Dr. Boyce Watkins     Click to Watch

According to Princeton University, Aretha Franklin is worthy of being called “Doctor Franklin”. The “Queen of Soul” recently received an honorary doctorate from the prestigious university. Princeton marks the third honorary doctorate for Franklin who also has other Doctorate of Music honorary degrees from Yale University and the Berklee College of Music. The 70-year-old singer, who dropped out of high ...

by Antonio Ellis, Your Black World Over the past two decades, it is no secret that Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU’s) financial management has plummeted. For example, in the late 1990s, Morris Brown College experienced a mass amount of debt that resulted in its loss of accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools in 2002. During that ...

I watched in shock as a young Black woman at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) became violent in class after being interviewed about the death of the late Trayvon Martin .  The student cursed at her classmates and eventually attacked people in the room.  Jonatha Carr , a 24-year-old student who may have trouble getting back into school, was eventually hauled out of the classroom and put in the back of a squad car.

Republicans don’t excite me very much, but it seems that we have to at least acknowledge them. The party has become, in recent years, an even worse example of politics gone scary.  The right wing opposition to having a Black liberal in the White House has led to some illogical decision-making and an intense desire to cut off noses to spite one’s face.  Super Tuesday is an example of this phenomenon and it simply wasn’t pretty

As I prepare for a political panel at Howard University to be hosted by Roland Martin, I thought about why presidential candidates lose sleep and act like lunatics in preparation for Super Tuesday. Well, in spite of the fact that many liberals have already concluded that Republicans are crazy in general, some of the insanity may be legitimized by all that’s at stake on this particular day

Janelle Harris wrote an interesting article at Essence.com , discussing stereotypes of Black Mothers in America. The title of the article was quite compelling, “Black Moms Do More Than Cook, Cuss and Beat Their Kids.” SEE ALSO: 150 Fearless Women Like everyone else, I thought back to the women who’ve influenced me in my life, namely my mother, aunts and grandmothers. Yes, they all cooked, a lot

Richard Cebull , chief judge for the U.S.

Like the rest of America, I found myself getting sick after reading about the sex abuse scandal at Penn State University .  The detailed reports are nothing less than mortifying, and I am among those who believe that this university should pay tens of millions to the victims and their families in order to make things right. I also find myself wondering if anyone other than former Penn State Assistant Coach Jerry Sandusky should be going to jail over this – there appear to be numerous accomplices who should be losing more than just their jobs.