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Mary-Pat Hector, a 19-year-old Spelman student, will become a part of history if she is elected to office in the state of Georgia.

Spelman College, the nation’s top HBCU for women, is considering accepting transgender students. The news was announced by the college’s president late last week. The AJC.com reports: President Mary Schmidt Campbell included the information in a welcome back letter to the campus community on Thursday and posted on the private school’s website. Spelman is the […]

The account, which started posting May 2, details how the unidentified student was partying with upperclassmen from the men's college -- which is also the brother school to Spelman, a private women's college -- when four students took the anonymous poster into a room and began the sexual assault.

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One of the most high-profile philanthropic love affairs in modern history has come to an end. In the wake of mounting rape and sexual assault…

Nothing beats homecoming weekend at a historically black college or university, but whose school has the best? Is it the Marching 100 down in Tallahassee,…

Rickey Smiley Morning Show

There are many reasons why Black students consider attending a historically Black college or university. Not only do HBCU’s provide an education, they offer Black…

Rickey Smiley Morning Show

To complete the trifecta of HBCUs in the Atlanta University Center Consortium (including Spelman, Morehouse), Atlanta University was founded in 1865 by the American Missionary…

Rickey Smiley Morning Show

Spelman College was founded on April 11, 1881 by two teachers in the basement of Friendship Baptist Church in Atlanta, GA. After money is gifted…

One of the proudest moments of Melvin Cox’s (pictured right) life would have been to see his daughter graduate with honors from the prestigious Spelman College in Atlanta.…

Kristie (pictured left) and Kirstie Bronner  (pictured) are identical twins with identical grade point averages, so why shouldn’t they share the honor of being Spelman College‘s…

Graduation season is upon us and colleges and universities are pulling strings to get big names to give their commencement speeches. Oprah Winfrey has accepted the invitation to give Spelman College’s 2012 commencement address, reports The Atlantic Journal-Constitution. The historically Black college’s graduation ceremony is set for May 20 at the George International Convention Center. […]