The Virgil C. Lott Medal of Honor—established in 2011—will be presented to a winner selected by a committee made up of the ...

As Black History Month heads into its final week, there is a piece of profound history in our region that overlooks a hillside on Miami's western campus.

A special guest took the stage at Liberty University Convocation on Friday, which is the largest weekly gathering of Christian students in ... in common when we first met, we actually had to ...

Mwatabu Okantah was at Kent State when Black History Month was first celebrated. He reflects on the groundwork laid and why ...

Darius Peyton was, in his own words, the type of student who’d use any ... "firsts" like Clifton Wharton, the first Black president of a Big Ten university. Peyton would spend hours in the ...

Virgil C. Lott, the first Black student to graduate from the University of Texas at Austin Law School. (Photo credit: UT Law). The Virgil C. Lott Medal of Honor—established in 2011—will be ...

An 86-year-old Missouri man has died just days after pleading guilty in the 2023 shooting of Ralph Yarl, a Black honor ...

He graduated in 1971 with two undergraduate degrees from the university, before entering the charter class at Eastern Virginia Medical School as the first Black student in 1973. Earning his ...

A new design has been chosen to commemorate the first five African American students who desegregated East Tennessee State University (ETSU) in the late 1950s.

Students have marched on Corcoran Commons, crowded the lawn of St. Ignatius Church, and occupied Gasson Hall, each time demanding racial equity at Boston College. Each time, they stood up against ...