Oakwood University supports the Trump administration's controversial compact for higher education that would require signatories to make changes to their policies in order to receive a potential edge in federal funding, Religion News Service (RNS) reported. The historically Black university in Alabama wrote a Nov. 18 letter to the Education Department about its interest in the compact. Oakwood is the second HBCU to show interest in signing on.
This year is Kellie Williams' first AfroTech conference. The 21-year-old is a computer science major at Bluefield State, which is a historically black college in West Virginia. She was selected to come to Houston thanks to an internship with The Walt Disney Company. "I knew I had to get here someway, somehow. When they gave me the opportunity, I was so grateful. I took it and ran with it. I was going to get here one way or another," she said.
"I never thought I'd look across the field and watch him coach," Vick said. "I know vice versa for him. It was just a really cool moment, a surreal moment. You just never know what life is going to put in front of you."
Coppin State University in Baltimore announced in 2023 that it would begin offering in-state tuition to any student who lived in one of the 41 U.S. states and territories without an HBCU-as well as the District of Columbia, which has two HBCUs-through a program called Expand Eagle Nation. In 2024, the first year of the program, the institution more than doubled the number of students from qualifying states to 195-up from 81 the previous fall.
"We are ringing in the school year with more investments to prepare our students for bold futures," Adams said. "Today, we are opening seven new public schools across the five boroughs, including the first HBCU Early College Prep High School, expanding programs for students with autism, rolling out our first batch of 5,000 new after-school seats, and so much more as we invest in our students and families."
The Oak Bluffs capsule collection connects iconic fashion with deep cultural heritage, launching July 24, 2025, through a partnership with Morehouse and Spelman College.
