On Sunday, October 23rd, at 12 Noon EDST, Howard University will host an official ceremony to rename it’s School of Communications for Cathy Hughes, the Founder and Chairperson of Radio One, Inc. You can watch the live stream of the official unveiling ceremony from this page. The renaming follows a multi-million dollar gift to the […]
Congratulations to Radio One’s own Cathy Hughes on achieving a huge milestone! Howard University’s School of Communications will formally rename itself after media mogul Cathy Hughes. Cathy Hughes is the chairperson and founder of Radio One. Ms. Hughes founded Radio One in 1980, along with then-husband Dewey Hughes. Radio One is the largest African-American owned and targeted multi-media company […]
Everything that P. Diddy does, he does big. While performing in Washington, DC on Thursday, the Bad Boy founder announced a pledge of $1 million to Howard University, the prestigious HBCU that he attended. The money is for the Sean Combs Scholarship Fund, which was designed to help to shape a new generation of HU students. During the concert, […]
The First Lady, joined by actor and HU student Nick Cannon and talk show host Seth Meyers, offered the Class of 2020 sound advice on college life.
The Tony Awards set the bar for diversity on Sunday evening as several actors and actresses of color were recognized for their work; a major difference from the #OscarsSoWhite controversy that ensued earlier this year. For the first time in the ceremony’s history, four musical acting awards were nabbed by Black actors. Broadway hit show […]
POTUS also told the class of 2016 to “create your own style, set your own standard of beauty, embrace your own sexuality."
Watch President Barack Obama deliver one of his final commencement speeches at Howard University Saturday.
H.U. just won in a major way.
The MacArthur "Genius" and award-winning author will kick off the HBCU's prestigious celebration of Black brilliance.
A new study shows that house-sharing service Airbnb isn’t always accommodating for African-Americans. Research conducted by the Harvard Business School revealed that Airbnb hosts discriminate against people of color and those with ethnic names. HBS put together 6,400 fake Airbnb guest profiles, giving each profile a “White” or a “Black” name. The names were pulled from data […]
Already, copycat hate crimes are popping up at universities including Fordham, Bowie State and Howard after the University of Missouri's Black students rose up against racism on campus.
After over 30 years of being on air, Howard University is considering selling their public television station.
