Lincoln University — chartered in 1854 as The Ashmun Institute — is the first degree-granting HBCU in the U.S., according to its website. In honor of then-President Abraham Lincoln, the ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

The first intercollegiate football game between two historically black colleges and universities, Biddle College (now Johnson C. Smith University) and Livingstone College, was played 132 years ago ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Marybeth Gasman writes about racism, philanthropy, HBCUs & faculty. Women participating in the My Sister's Keeper program. The BWHI is the ...

The multi-year partnership between the Black College World Series and Urban Edge Network was announced on June 11, 2024. “We ...

U.S. News ranked a total of 77 historically Black colleges and universities. Apply the same energy participating in your competitive sport to development of in-demand career skills.

There's been a resurgence of student interest in attending historically Black colleges and universities, or HBCUs, which experts say is due to a variety of social, cultural and political factors.

For the fifth consecutive year, national collegiate baseball publications and broadcast platforms will carry every pitch of the 2025 Black College World Series (BCWS), May 7-10. As many as 13 ...

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and his wife, Patty Quillin, are donating $120 million toward student scholarships at historically black colleges and universities. Thursday's presidential debate wasn't ...