During Thanksgiving break, what started as a pre-performance warmup ended in a social media video that went viral for the Clark Atlanta University Choir’s Philharmonic Society ensemble. Co-choir director Reggie Gibson didn’t know that one of his students was recording the warmup to add content for their social media platforms, which captured the choir’s vocal […]
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UNCF receives $100 million grant to support capital campaign
Today, the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) announced that Lilly Endowment has awarded a $100 million unrestricted grant to support its capital campaign. The grant will go towards the college fund’s $1 billion capital campaign’s five components: student scholarships, unrestricted funds to enhance the endowments for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), capacity-building programs for […]
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HOPE Global Forums kick off with screening of ‘The Color of Money,’ discussion panel
Last week, an almost capacity crowd gathered at Clark Atlanta University to watch a screening of Ambassador Andrew Young’s documentary, “The Color of Money,” as part of Operation HOPE’s HOPE Global Forums’ Salon Series. Young was in attendance along with John Hope Bryant, founder, chairman and CEO of Operation HOPE. After the screening, they spoke […]
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SCOTUS affirmative action ruling proves HBCUs are needed now more than ever
Last week, the Supreme Court reversed a 20-year-old rule on how students are evaluated by institutions of higher learning. Friday’s reversal of affirmative action is now in the history books, but we have yet to turn the pages to find out how much damage this decision will ultimately cause. Oral tradition in Black culture has […]
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NCBP, CAU opens, names institution after community leader Tommy Dortch
The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation Thomas W. Dortch, Jr. Institution will develop and support community-based leaders addressing racial, social and economic issues in the South. Last month, the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation (NCBCP) opened its new Clark Atlanta University (CAU) campus Southern Regional Office to help strengthen its work in the […]
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Will CAU Wellness Week begin a new standard for bereavement?
As students were grieving the loss of their classmate, teammate and friend, they wished the administration would do more. By Allison Joyner Last week, Clark Atlanta University (CAU) President George French declared a wellness week in reaction to last month’s shooting death of Jatonne Sterling. “As we continue to mourn the tragic loss of our […]
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Students move on campus with no updates from last semester’s bomb threats
Feb. 23 was the last update given by the FBI. By Allison Joyner This month, as college students are moving onto campus for the fall 2022 semester, A specter is still looming. And as students moved in for the first time or returned for another school year around metro Atlanta, the suspects involved in making […]
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No new developments as HBCU campuses end semester
A series of bomb threats and suspicious packages shook the schools within the AUC earlier this year. By Allison Joyner As the spring semester is coming to a close on most college campuses, investigating who has been executing a series of threats has not. From January to March of this year, Historically Black Colleges and […]
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‘Anonymous threat’ signals shelter-in-place order for Clark Atlanta, more bomb threats to HBCUs
Campus police received the threat shortly before noon and lifted the order just before 1 p.m. By Allison Joyner The Clark Atlanta University (CAU) Public Safety Department administered a shelter-in-place order after a threat was received Wednesday morning. “A temporary shelter-in-place order” for the entire campus occurred after “an anonymous threat received by campus police” […]
