Howard University News Archives

Airplane travel these days is nothing but line after line. Each one involves hurrying up...only to wait.

For three years, Paul Gardner lived a Washington, D.C., lifestyle. The Atlanta native was earning his degree at Howard University Law School, networking on Capitol Hill, and partying at luxe clubs and restaurants all over Washington.

These days, 24-year-old Delonta Spriggs spends much of his time cooped up in his mother's one-bedroom apartment in Southwest Washington, the TV blaring soap operas hour after hour, trying to stay out of the streets and out of trouble, held captive by the economy.

The man accused of killing a nine-year-old boy during a robbery was found dead in his jail cell Wednesday.

You can sense the giddiness a reader must have felt reading the headlines 55 years ago this week, whether it was ' " High Court Bans School Segregation; 9-to-0 Decision Grants Time to Comply ," or the Chicago Defender proclaiming May 17, 1954, as "the beginning of the end of the dual society in American life and the system of segregation that ...

District Police homicide detectives are investigating the death of a man found unconscious at the DC Jail Wednesday afternoon.

It's a long way from Hartsville, South Carolina, to Capitol Hill, but that's where Hartsville native Moses Dixon has been spending a lot of time this semester.

The Orwellian removal of all vestiges of former Professor Bernard Moore's time at Williams continues.

Here's the table of contents: Priming Postconviction Representation By Andrew E. Taslitz Issue editor for the symposium on postconviction practices, Prof.

One of South African President Jacob Zuma's wives, Nompumelelo Ntuli Zuma, visited Howard University on Friday, speaking to students at the school's College of Arts and Sciences.

Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin will begin a one-semester professorship at Spelman College in January, college officials told the AJC Monday.

Brown says CakeLove has received lots of love from customers during the recession.

While the nation is reeling over double-digit jobless rates showing up for the first time in decades, African-American males are looking at numbers almost twice as worse.

Dr. Thomas Stewart, a Navy captain and dentistry veteran of more than 30 years, has been elected president of the California Dental Association.

While the nation is reeling over double-digit jobless rates showing up for the first time in decades, Black males are looking at numbers almost twice as worse.

The Hispanic College Fund and UNCF - the United Negro College Fund are accepting applications today through Feb.

When Hemnecher Amen, a student, joined a protest outside the White House recently, it was the latest visible opposition here to US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

When Robert Rigsby arrived in Atlanta, he got a standing ovation. When he surprised his wife during her speech at Howard University, he got a standing ovation.

Pardoning has gotten a bad name, and a recent visitor to Maine hopes to do something about it.

Lilly and Valens appear in a past episode of "Cold Case." Former Charlottean Erica Anderson is now writing for the show.

One of the most important troves of African-American historical materials became the subject of national ire and hand wringing this week, when the student newspaper at Howard University reported that the university librarya s Moorland-Spingarn Research Center - considered one of the foremost repositories of artifacts and manuscripts related to ...

Proquest provides this information about Bernard Moore's dissertation. America's race to incarcerate: Locking up communities of color by Moore, Bernard, Ph.D., Howard University, 2009 , 304 pages; AAT 3350304 Abstract Research findings support the conclusion that incarceration in the United States has increased, and numbers of African-American male ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its October 2009 unemployment report. The numbers were worse than expected.

After outcry from the Howard University community, it looks as if a long-standing pillar of research will remain open at the Washington, D.C., university.

When Robert Rigsby arrived in Atlanta, he got a standing ovation. When he surprised his wife during her speech at Howard University, he got a standing ovation.

Chuck Patterson is a talker. He readily admits that. But the judge-elect of the York County Court of Common Pleas doesn't prattle, he doesn't ramble.

An Army psychiatrist set to be shipped overseas opened fire at the Fort Hood Army post Thursday, authorites said, a rampage that killed 12 people and left 31 wounded in the worst mass shooting ever at a military base in the United States.

Incoming AARP CEO A. Barry Rand contributed $8,900 to President Obama's campaign committees, federal records show.

To a 17- or 18-year-old high school student, a license and a car equal one thing: freedom.

The United Negro College Fund may join Radio One Inc. in relocating its headquarters to a planned mixed-use office and residential development in D.C.'s Shaw neighborhood, according to sources close to the deal.

Reading about the "Booty Wall" at Howard University last week sent one regular City Paper reader on a trip down memory lane.