Four Morehouse College athletes have been arrested and charged in connection with a sexual assault on the campus, Channel 2 Action News in Atlanta reported. According to Fulton County Jail records, Chukudwi Ndudikwa, Malcolm Jamal Frank, Tevin Mgbo and Lucien Kidd were arrested last month. Ndudikwa, Frank and Kidd were all charged with rape. Mgbo [...]
HBCUs Threaten to Sue Obama Administration Over Federal Loan Changes
March 15, 2013 | Posted by
The Obama administration may be the target of a lawsuit by the nation’s historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), stemming from new federal financial aid policies that disproportionately affect students at the majority black institutions. The new policies raised the criteria for parents trying to secure PLUS loans for their children’s education, subsequently making a [...]
Meagan Good Shares Secret to Marriage Success
March 1, 2013 | Posted by
Since when is marriage a bad thing? Apparently when one former sex symbol and her preacher husband discuss the keys to a successful marriage it’s cause for public disdain. Meagan Good and her husband Devon Franklin addressed a Morehouse College panel sponsored by Wal-mart to discuss the benefits of being a happily wedded union. The [...]
Morehouse College Gets $3M Gift From Ray Charles Foundation
February 18, 2013 | Posted by
The Ray Charles Foundation has awarded Morehouse College $3 million. The gift will secure the naming of the academic wing of the Ray Charles Performing Arts Center at the college after the late singer’s mother, Aretha Robinson. The announcement was made Saturday night during Morehouse’s 25th annual “A Candle in The Dark” gala, the largest [...]
Morehouse College Shooting Impacts Campus Culture
February 15, 2013 | Posted by
ATLANTA – Last week’s shooting at Morehouse College did not garner the media attention of the Newtown, Conn., massacre or other gun-related violence – particularly in Chicago – that has been pervasive in the country over the last several weeks. But it was an event with lasting reverberations. Clark Atlanta student Amir T. Obafemi, 21, [...]
Morehouse College Commences First-Ever LGBT Course
January 25, 2013 | Posted by
Morehouse College students began classes at the school’s highly anticipated new LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual) course this week. The course is the first of its kind at the legendary historically black college and will focus on the history of LGBT culture, politics and social structures. “A Genealogy of Black LGBT Culture and Politics” [...]
Zimbabwe-Born Businessman, Strive Masiyiwa, Commits $6.4 Mil to Send 40 African Students to Morehouse College
September 11, 2012 | Posted by
Nigena Hamim knew exactly why he wanted to leave the African nation of Burundi and come to the United States to attend Morehouse College. “I have a dream of fighting ethnic divisions in my country and I am encouraged to realize my vision…After all, I believe that I was born at a time like this [...]
Robberies Of Spelman Students Prompt Safety Concerns
May 1, 2012 | Posted by
Over the weekend there were two separate incidents in which students from the Atlanta University Center were victims of armed robberies near campus, causing many students at the nation’s most famous center of historically black learning to worry about whether they are safe on the campus they call home. Two Spelman students along with three [...]
