The Shaw Lady Bears basketball team returned home Sunday after their third straight CIAA championship win on Saturday. The Lady Bears dominated the inside to pull away from Fayetteville State in the second half for a 72-53 win. The trio of Crystal Harris, Crystal Wilson and Taylor Dalrymply combined for 52 points and 22 rebounds […]

Defense was the key, in the Shaw Lady Bears come from behind victory 88-82 over Ashland (Ohio) to win their first Div II National Title.They came into the tournament unranked and now have the respect of the nay-sayers. Shaw University will recognize the Lady Bears with an on-campus “Welcome Home” celebration this afternoon at 2:30p.m. in […]

VIA: WTVD.COM Shaw University Board of Trustees Chairman Willie Gary announced Monday that Dorothy Cowser Yancy will return for a second stint as interim university president next month. The announcement comes after Dr. Irma McClaurin resigned the presidency last Tuesday. Yancy is the former president of Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte. She served as […]

VIA: WRAL.COM The first female president of Shaw University is leaving her position after less than a year at the helm of one of the oldest historically black colleges in the South, WRAL News learned Tuesday. The university called Irma McClaurin’s resignation a “mutually agreed-upon decision,” but declined to elaborate on the reason for her departure. […]

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VIA: WTVD.COM Shaw University announced its new president Thursday — the first female president in the school’s history. Irma McClaurin is the school’s 15th president since 1865. Shaw is the South’s first historically black college. Dorothy Yancy has served as interim president for over a year. She is the former president of Johnson C. Smith […]

VIA: WRAL.COM Police closed downtown Raleigh streets and asked about 160 people to evacuate buildings along Martin Luther King Jr. after a gas leak on Shaw University’s campus. Police closed Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, between South Wilmington and South Blount streets, and were diverting traffic on multiple streets in the area. Shaw University asked […]