Education

Congratulations to Yara Shahidi who recently graduated from Harvard University donning custom Dior.

U.S. President Joe Biden may have come up with a plan to alleviate the financial burden of student debt for many Americans by $10,000.

GRAMMY-winning lyricist Lupe Fiasco is giving some of the rap game back in the form of a hip-hop course as a professor at MIT.

Good News

NBA star Stephen Curry has completed his studies at Davidson College, 13 years after being drafted into the NBA.

Good News

Brooklyn-bred mogul Jay-Z has invested in a Black-led finance app.

In addition to Lupe, Moriba K. Jah, the Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Texas, and documentary filmmaker Louis Massiah will also teach the program.

YouTube announced Tabitha Brown’s preschool series, Tab Time, will return for a second season. Read more details inside. The post Tabitha Brown’s YouTube Preschool Series ‘Tab Time’ Gets Second Season Pickup appeared first on Global Grind.

Common shared a video of his daughter, Omoye Assata Lynn graduating from Howard University Law School on his Instagram account, expressing that the joy he felt was hard to describe. The video montage showed the two reveling in the happy moment as well as the moment she accepted her degree.

HBCU News

Like at other colleges, Howard University students returned from remote learning to in-person classes during a pandemic. However, unlike most other schools, part of that "new normal" included a major protest against "inhumane" living conditions.

100 students are walking across the stage debt-free from Wiley College after an anonymous donor pays paid their balances. 

After being 30 years in the making, Black-ish actor Anthony Anderson celebrates graduating from Howard University.