Why African American students are choosing Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

After Texas Western College, with an all-Black starting lineup, beat the all-White University of Kentucky team for the men's national basketball championship in 1966, the handwriting on the wall was l...

Jelani Favors examines the late Jesse Jackson's time at North Carolina A&T State University and how the HBCU cultivated in him the importance of character, civic engagement, and service.

In December, six faculty members - all tenured or tenure-track - were informed their research projects at the Virginia State University Agricultural Research Station were being sunset and their employ...

As March Madness will consume our attention, institutions must focus beyond the tournament. The true measure of success is thriving Black student athletes excelling on the court, in the classroom and ...

Historian Edmond W. Davis notes that “no single donor in American history — not Rockefeller, Carnegie, Mellon, Vanderbilt, Morgan, Buffett, Musk, nor Gates — has ever invested more directly and broadl...

How higher education helped a prison inmate develop confidence and rediscover his humanity.

HBCUs have always done more with less. Now, they must do more for their students, not because of market demands, but in defiance of them.

The data provides evidence that years of engagement and investment has produced a robust HBCU R&D enterprise on pace to deliver a fleet of top-tier research institutions. But, current uncertainty abou...

Umoja Community Education Foundation's Dr. Vernon Lindsay and Dr. Ahmed Naguib reflect on their work and those of other nonprofit organizations in supporting Black students.

Neither the U.S. News & World Report or the Forbes rankings have been fair to HBCUs because their definition of what constitutes a quality education rewards reputations and traditions built on wealth ...

JBHE has compiled a list of the graduation rates at the nation's 25 largest HBCUs by total enrollments to see how students at these schools succeed in earning a degree. Only four of the 25 HBCUs gradu...

"Tougaloo is not simply a school I once attended. It is a place I still study, still love, and still believe in. We are at the edge again. But edges are not only places of fracture. They are also plac...

Dr. André Seewood recounts the challenges scholars of color experience in predominantly white academic settings and the perseverance required to prosper.

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. The books included are on a wide variety of subjects and present many differen...

My students start the course with little capacity to manage the intense emotions they feel during conversations about race and identity. As a result, they get protected from the intrusion of violence ...