Not every member of the “First Five” graduated from the University, but they are remembered collectively as trailblazers who ...

On Feb. 3, 1956, Autherine Lucy made history by attending her first class at the University of Alabama, almost four years after she began to seek admission. She was the first Black student to ...

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

An 86-year-old Kansas City man has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in the 2023 shooting of Ralph Yarl, a Black honor ...

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 ...

In 1951, a group of five Black students - Harvey Beech, James Lassiter, J. Kenneth Lee, Floyd McKissick and James Robert Walker - were the first to ... been made at the university over the years ...

The book contains 17 personal essays, and this is part of Wilson’s about his experiences with group conversion therapy at Liberty ... university that fined, punished, and even expelled students ...