Author: Savannah Herald

Mr. Spencer Dwight Adams, 66 years old of West Palm Beach, Florida, passed away on Friday, December 26, 2025, in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.    Graveside Service will be held on Saturday, January 10, 2026, at 11:00 AM at Toney & Nellie Brown Memorial Cemetery located at 163 New Haven Street in Pineland, South Carolina 29934. To send flowers to the family or plant a tree in memory of Mr. Spencer Dwight Adams, please visit our floral store. Source link

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Black Voices: Money and Employment News from Across the Nation Rear view of male and female adult students walking at campus during sunny day The only predominantly Black university in Indiana is shutting down, as of early January. Martin University — which is a historically Black institution and Black-founded, but technically not classified as a Historically Black College or University (HBCU) since it was founded after the cutoff date — will close after almost 50 years in operation. The main reason? Financial issues. In recent years, enrollment not only decreased, but funding tanked. “Without an endowment and given today’s political…

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Local Voices. Statewide Impact. Stay Informed with North Florida News by ReShonda Tate | Defender Network For many families, Black Greek life is more than colors, calls, and college memories — it is a legacy. It’s the sound of a grandmother’s stories from her HBCU days, the pride in a father’s old step show photo tucked into a family album, the sparkle in a child’s eyes when they attend their first Founders’ Day brunch. “Pinning my daughter was one of the highlights of my life,” said Benita Wright Smith, a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. “To share with…

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Black Athletes in the Spotlight: HBCU Sports & Local Highlights Prairie View A&M head coach Tremaine Jackson didn’t just speak frankly at the American Football Coaches Association convention — he spoke a truth few college coaches want to say out loud. “I don’t think we can be successful and keep our jobs with a bunch of 18-year-olds,” Jackson said, explaining his focus on the transfer portal over high school recruiting. Some will call that cynical. It’s not. It’s reality. The game has changed, and Jackson is one of the few willing to adapt without apology. The transfer portal, for all…

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Wellness That Matters: Black Health News & Community Care by Mitti Hicks January 13, 2026 If the $875,000 settlement is approved by the finance committee on Wednesday, the full city council could cast a final vote on Jan. 21. Chicago city attorneys are recommending that the Chicago aldermen approve an $875,000 settlement with a group of more than two dozen people accusing police officers of violating their civil rights during Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. The protests were in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd. According to CBS Chicago, the City Council Finance Committee is expected…

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HBCU News Spotlight: By Jada Thompson Marketing & Communications Coordinator Fisk University Dr. Roneisha Simpson created an excel spreadsheet with lists of colleges she hoped to attend. Fisk University was at the top of that list; a school far away from her hometown of St. Louis, Missouri – a place unfamiliar to family members who had never stepped foot on a college campus. She would be the first. It was For the Love of Fisk that she dared to venture onto the campus listed first on that spreadsheet. “It was hard being a first-generation college student because you felt like…

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Tomorrow’s Tech, Today: Innovation That Moves Us Forward Apple is going full throttle in the run-up to its Q1 FY26 fiscal call at the end of this month, boosting investor confidence with its AI partnership with Google and following that up with an announcement to inject even more growth into its all-important services division. Introducing Apple Creator Studio For decades, Apple has published two of the industry’s leading products for creative professionals, Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro. It has accompanied these with powerful tools such as Motion, Compressor, and Main Stage, and useful productivity apps including Pages, Keynote, and Numbers. (Apple also acquired Pixelmator Pro…

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From Campus to Classroom: Stories That Shape Education The HBCU community is mourning the tragic loss of Andre Bell, a 20-year-old basketball player whose life was cut short after a deadly highway shooting in Nashville. Bell, a student-athlete at Fisk University, was killed late Sunday night in what authorities are investigating as a targeted shooting on an interstate roadway. According to multiple reports, the shooting occurred on Interstate 65 North near the I-40 interchange, a busy stretch of highway in downtown Nashville. Bell was riding in a vehicle when gunfire erupted from another car, striking him. The vehicle he was…

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