Photos by Ari Skin As Morehouse College commenced New Student Orientation last week, faculty, student leaders, alumni, and a new president rallied together to welcome the freshman class of 2029. “This is the time where leadership is needed,” said F. DuBois Bowman, a Morehouse alumnus and the 13th president of the all-male college, in his […]
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Billionaire Who Paid Off $34M in Morehouse Student Loans Plans to Help Others
In a moment that instantly went viral in 2019, Morehouse commencement speaker Robert F. Smith surprised graduates at the 135th ceremony with the news that he would be paying off all their student loans. Now Smith, in partnership with Live Nation Urban and the city of Atlanta, wants to help even more HBCU students struggling […]
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Free Back-to-School Supplies: Where To Get Everything From Binders To Backpacks
Back-to-school shopping means hitting the stores for notebooks, pencils, backpacks, binders, rulers, calculators, and more. And for cash-strapped shoppers, the prices can add up quickly, putting a dent in parents’ pockets. Adding to the financial pressures many face are concerns over rising inflation and President Donald Trump’s tariff plans. In an Intuit Credit Karma survey […]
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After Morehouse Student Found Dead in Pond, Ben Crump Calls for Answers
A bright young leader with a kind heart, Morehouse College student Kyle Coleman had a promising future. So when his parents, Keith and Cimmerian Coleman, woke up June 7 and realized their son had not come home after hanging out with friends the previous evening in Virginia, they reported their 19-year-old missing. Four days later, […]
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A Morehouse student Was Lynched in 1930. Why the College Gave Him a Posthumous Degree.
I still remember the call from Allison Bantimba, former leader for the Fulton County Remembrance Coalition, a community remembrance project focused on healing and learning from the legacy of racial terror through reconciliation. Her voice carried the kind of reverence that comes when you’re about to be invited into sacred work. “We have another lynching […]
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A 6-Year-Old Faced Slurs and Violence. Then She Got Punished.
A 6-year-old Black girl was called a monkey, the N-word, and physically assaulted by her classmates at Ashford Park Elementary School in DeKalb County, according to a federal civil rights lawsuit filed earlier this year. The lawsuit alleges an incident where she dodged a desk thrown at her by another student but was later given […]
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Georgia Skips Feeding Kids This Summer as GOP Pushes SNAP Cuts
As Atlanta Public Schools are set to close for summer break next week, one of the main questions on Kimberly Dukes’ mind is how she will feed her children. The mother of 10, and executive director of the education advocacy group Atlanta Thrive, is well aware of the hardships many APS families face when schools […]
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Morehouse College Graduation: Celebrating Brotherhood and Black Excellence
(Photos by Ari Skin) An African drum procession. Fraternity members barking in celebration. Black kings adjusting each other’s proverbial crowns. There’s no graduation quite like Morehouse College’s commencement — a spectacular array of pageantry that marks the matriculation of hundreds of Black men every year and reinforces the HBCU’s status as a beacon of Black […]
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Who Is F. DuBois Bowman, the Next President of Morehouse?
Morehouse College has selected one of its own to grab the baton as the school’s next president. Public health leader and biostatistician F. DuBois Bowman — who graduated from the institution in 1992 with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics — will join the school as its 13th president at a time of great upheaval in […]
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Metro Atlanta Program Looks to Support High Schoolers Who Are Also Caregivers
This article was originally published by Healthbeat, a nonprofit newsroom covering public health published by Civic News Company and KFF Health News. Aaliyah Taylor, a 16-year-old high school sophomore, is used to having more responsibilities than a typical teenager. She helped her dad feed and tend to her grandmother until she died in 2023, tasks […]