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An annual festival set Atlanta ablaze with a record number of attendees who took in two days of unforgettable performances. ONE Musicfest 2023 made history this past weekend when 100,000 people gathered at Piedmont Park to watch an array of musical acts across three electrifying stages. View this post on Instagram A post shared by […]

J Cole was the latest guest on Lil Yachtys podcast 'A Safe Place' and revealed he doesn't charge for features.

The queen of celebrity Halloween, Heidi Klum, made an entrance at her annual party in a peacock costume. The German model was accompanied by a group of acrobats dressed as her plume of feathers.

Moderna Chairman Noubar Afeyan talks to Christiane Amanpour about the mass exodus of ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh.

Is AI coming for your job? CNN talked to Prof. Robert Seamans who studies how jobs are exposed to artificial intelligence and explains why some professions are more exposed than others.

Birmingham Legends R.O.A. Lafamilia Featured On Trap-A-Holics Presents Thiz So Epik Dj's Mixtapegas Magazine In The Early 90s A Group Emerged In The City Of Birmingham Realest Outta Alabama ( R.O.A. ) The Group Hit The Scene And Set It Off For The Streets And Radio Selling Thousands Of Units. Now Back On The Scene Rebranded As R.O.A. Lafamilia Check Out "Proper Plannin" Featured On Trap-A-Holics Presents Thiz So Epik Dj's Mixtapegas Magazine

Earlier This Year Joe Barz Released "Ask About Me" And Later Was Featured On The Mixtapegas Magazine Debute With A Different Bounce To It. Thiz So Epik Dj's Trapmix "Ask About Him" Check It Out Now All Platforms. Joe Barz Has Been Putting In Work For Years Starting His Career With Murc Camp Music His Whitty Word Play Makes Good For A Great Song.

The only cure for painful sickle cell disease today is a bone marrow transplant. But soon there may be a new cure that attacks the disorder at its genetic source. On Tuesday, advisers to the Food and Drug Administration will review a gene therapy for the inherited blood disorder, which in the U.S. mostly affects Black people. Issues they will consider include whether more research is needed into possible unintended consequences of the treatment. If approved by the FDA, it would be the first gene therapy on the U.S. market based on CRISPR, the gene editing tool that won its inventors the Nobel Prize in 2020. The The post A new cure for sickle cell disease may be coming. FDA advisers will review it next week. appeared first on HBCU News.

By Monica Lewis As he prepares to hold his formal inauguration next week, Howard University President Ben Vinson III, Ph.D., has announced key additions to his cabinet as well as leadership updates within the Office of Corporate Relations, the Office of the Provost, and the Office of the Chief Strategy Officer, all areas focused on supporting strategic priorities for the University. Vinson, who started his role as the University’s 18th president on September 1, has named two new members to his cabinet: Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, senior advisor for strategic initiatives, and Odalys M. Diaz Piñeiro, Ed.D., chief of staff. Zeleza started in The post Howard University President Ben Vinson III, Ph.D., Makes Key Additions to Cabinet appeared first on HBCU News.

By Quiana Shepard North Carolina Central University (NCCU) announces the grand reopening of its newly- renovated NCCU Art Museum, with a significant exhibition entitled “Celebrating Ernie Barnes: A Homecoming,” which will be displayed from Thursday, Nov. 3 to Friday, Dec. 15, 2023. Distinguished NCCU alumnus Ernest Eugene Barnes Jr. attended then-called North Carolina College (N.C.C.) at Durham (1956-60) on a full athletics scholarship and majored in art. Barnes credited his formal artistic and athletic training at N.C.C. as an integral foundation for his style and approach to art. Today, his art is internationally recognized, acclaimed, admired and has been exhibited in major museums, institutions and The post Revitalized NCCU Art Museum Reopens with Ernie Barnes Exhibit, Nov. 3 appeared first on HBCU News.

Courtesy of Virginia State University Virginia State University proudly announces that Thompson Hospitality, the nation’s largest black-owned and privately held hospitality company, will donate $1 million to the university. The generous donation made by Warren Thompson is a tribute to his parents, Fred and Ruby Thompson. It marks the second $1 million contribution to VSU from the Thompson Family, following an initial pledge in 2011. “The Department of Hospitality Management is honored and humbled to receive a donation of this magnitude that celebrates the legacy of Fred & Ruby Thompson,” said Berkita Bradford, Department Chair of Hospitality Management at VSU. The post Virginia State University To Receive $1 Million Donation From Thompson Hospitality appeared first on HBCU News.

By Claretta Bellamy After Covid completely upended life on college campuses, students and recent graduates are encountering a new challenge: student loans. Federal student loan payments are resuming this week, ending the three-year pause enacted through policies in 2020 to ease financial burdens when the Covid pandemic rattled the economy and countless people’s livelihoods. Millions of college students and graduates — including Black women, who carry the highest burden of student debt — held on to the hope of President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, which the Supreme Court struck down in June. Yet, Biden is aiming to push policies that would provide relief The post Students whose college years were upended by Covid face their next hurdle: repaying loans appeared first on HBCU News.