As the world continues to be more open and accepting of transgender men and women, many barriers are being broken to include their rights. Noted HBCU Spelman College has taken a huge step forward in inclusion by announcing plans to openly admit transgender women. https://twitter.com/TheRoot/status/905473438814535680 The conversation surrounding transgender rights and visibility is one of […]
Mary-Pat Hector, a 19-year-old Spelman student, will become a part of history if she is elected to office in the state of Georgia.
Plus, Spelman College considers admitting transgender women into its class body and an entire Black church in North Carolina endorses Donald Trump.
In a whirlwind weekend, the OWN creator visited Mount Holyoke, Johnson C. Smith and Spelman to celebrate her former students' graduation.
The account, which started posting May 2, details how the unidentified student was partying with upperclassmen from the men's college -- which is also the brother school to Spelman, a private women's college -- when four students took the anonymous poster into a room and began the sexual assault.
Spelman College President, Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell said the school plans to be more diligent in investigating cases of sexual assault.
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Remember those Spelman girls? Specifically, twins Kristie and Kirstie Bronner (yep, of the Bronner Bros. hair extravaganzas and company), who were the historic HBCU Spelman…
There have been some major shifts on the annual list of top HBCUs! U.S. News & World Report ran the numbers, and announced its…
By Raynard Jackson, NNPA Columnist: I was flipping through the TV channels last week and came across one of Spike Lee’s best movies, School Daze. This was…
