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EXCLUSIVE: The fourth annual Macro HBCU Summit is underway Tuesday in-person again this year at Howard University in Washington, DC. The microfestival is hosting panels, food trucks, giveaways and a film screening.  The inaugural summit debuted at Howard in 2019 with the mission to engage and educate…

EXCLUSIVE: Comcast NBCUniversal said Tuesday that it will exclusively premiere the documentary The Return, a film about the HBCU experience. Will Packer is executive producer of the doc, which is directed by Ali Muhammad. The documentary arrives Thursday on the recently launched Black Experience on…

Taraji P. Henson was among those appointed to the President's Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Also named to the board was NBA star Chris Paul. The members of the board work to to “increase the capacity of HBCUs to provide the highest-quality education to its students and continue…

On the heels of All American spinoff Homecoming, the CW has ordered its second series set against the HBCU experience. The network has greenlighted March, an eight-episode series which revolves around the Prairie View A&M University Marching Band, The Marching Storm, recently ranked as the top HBCU Division I band by…

EXCLUSIVE: NBA All-Star Chris Paul is teaming up with Roadside Entertainment to produce a docuseries rooted in basketball programs at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The show will unfold over the course of the 2020-21 season, with exact participants and schools still to be determined. The goal is…

Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings and his wife Patty Quillin have donated $120 million to the United Negro College Fund, Spelman College and Morehouse College, a record-setting individual gift supporting scholarships at historically black colleges and universities. In an interview with MSNBC’s Craig Melvin…