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Bill Clinton To Students: Choose 'Open Hands' Over 'Closed Fists'

Posted 05.13.2013 | Black Voices

Bill Clinton has been dubbed the country's first black president, so it was more than appropriate for the former commander-in-chief to address student...

Hannity Talks Being Black (and Conservative) in America

Brittney Bullock | Posted 04.15.2013 | Black Voices
Brittney Bullock

Last Monday's unique taping of Hannity featured an audience of 23 distinguished professionals, invited to discuss the power and the plight that accompanies being black and conservative.

An a-Pauling Lesson in Black History

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 04.15.2013 | Politics
Robert J. Elisberg

When Rand Paul asks wide-eyed innocently how the Republican Party has lost the faith and trust of an entire race, he might want to look at all the efforts by Republican legislatures to make it difficult for blacks to do something as simple and basic as vote, for starters.

Rand Paul and the GOP World of Magical Thinking

Steven Conn | Posted 04.14.2013 | Politics
Steven Conn

Senator Rand Paul's Magical Thinking history lesson at Howard made plain just how much the GOP world view is a product of the way they see the past without really understanding it.

Correcting Rand Paul on the GOP's Troubling Civil Rights Record

Walker Bragman | Posted 04.15.2013 | College
Walker Bragman

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) recently spoke to students at Howard University in an effort to reach minority voters. During the interview Mr. Paul revealed a...

Rand Paul Stumbled At Howard, And That Was Sort Of The Point

The Huffington Post | Jon Ward | Posted 04.13.2013 | Politics

Rand Paul's speech at Howard University this week was widely panned, with much of the criticism coming from the left. Yet Artur Davis, a black Republi...

Jon Ward

Rand Paul's Surprising Message: Republicans 'Haven't Changed'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 04.11.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Rand Paul came to Howard University on Wednesday and argued to students at the historically black college that the Republican Party hasn...

WATCH: Rand Paul's Wildly Misleading Claim

The Huffington Post | Melissa Jeltsen | Posted 04.10.2013 | Politics

During an appearance at Howard University on Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) made misleading claims about his past support for the 1964 Civil Rights...

D.C. Cafe Tour: Bloomingdale Edition

Sarah Barness | Posted 04.10.2013 | DC
Sarah Barness

Experiencing a cafe is the best (and quickest) way to get acquainted with the soul of an area, so naturally when I moved to Bloomingdale, the first thing I did was hit the coffee shops.

Jon Ward

Rand Paul Faces Skeptical Students

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 04.09.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Maya Cade, a Howard University freshman with a sunny disposition, was walking down 4th Street on the eastern side of campus Tuesday afte...

Clinton Tapped To Deliver Big Speech

AP | Posted 03.26.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Howard University says former President Bill Clinton will deliver the school's commencement address in May. University President Sidney...

Sorority Hazing Suit Includes Bizarre Pearl Accusations

The Huffington Post | Will Wrigley | Posted 03.11.2013 | DC

An odd sorority lawsuit out of Washington. The Washington City Paper reports that two Howard University students have sued Alpha Kappa Alpha, accu...

Working for Sustainability: Can Multinational Food Service Corporation Sodexo Measure Up?

Jeremy John | Posted 04.13.2013 | Home
Jeremy John

Unsustainable wages are not just a worker's problem: wages limit the opportunities for workers to participate in healthy and sustainable food economies

WATCH: You Have To Watch This Inauguration Weekend Video

The Huffington Post | Arin Greenwood | Posted 01.27.2013 | DC

WASHINGTON -- You might think that this video, showing what would appear to be a blazer-wearing drunk man pounding on and otherwise molesting a D.C. l...

Rodney Holcombe

College Republicans At Historically Black Colleges And Universities Struggle To Connect With Romney

HuffingtonPost.com | Rodney Holcombe | Posted 11.20.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- When the TV networks announced that President Barack Obama had clinched Ohio and won a second term on election night, many college stude...

Group Of Gay Men Attempt To Sue Into Historic Sorority

Huffington Post | Sahaj Kohli | Posted 06.19.2012 | College

A group of gay men known as the MiAKAs are filing a lawsuit against the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated for gender discrimination. MiAKA,...

Rev. Al Sharpton Forum In D.C. Grapples With Trayvon Martin Cases

AP | Posted 04.14.2012 | DC

WASHINGTON -- The mother and fiancée of two men fatally shot by New York City police officers are expressing solidarity with the family of Trayvon Ma...

Historic Black Theater Reopens In D.C.'s Shaw Neighborhood

The Huffington Post | Posted 04.09.2012 | DC

WASHINGTON -- After 32 years, the Howard Theatre in the District of Columbia's Shaw neighborhood is reopening its doors once more. Beset by money prob...

Howard U. Investigates Possible Rules Violations In Sports Programs

AP | Posted 06.04.2012 | DC

WASHINGTON — Howard University has prevented some of its athletes from competing while the school investigates what it said Wednesday were possi...

Michael Grass

PHOTOS: D.C. Trayvon Martin Rally Draws Hundreds To Pennsylvania Avenue

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Grass | Posted 03.24.2012 | DC

WASHINGTON -- Amid light but steady rainfall, hundreds of people crowded Pennsylvania Avenue and Freedom Plaza on Saturday afternoon to protest the Fe...

D.C. Has Three Of The Top 50 Law Schools For Getting Really, Really High Paying Jobs

The Huffington Post | Posted 02.29.2012 | DC

WASHINGTON -- Want to make gobs of money as a lawyer? Want to make gobs of money and be taught employment discrimination law by a professor facing his...

Rachel Tepper

PHOTOS: Pop-Up Coffeehouse Opens Inside Darnell's Bar

HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Tepper | Posted 02.15.2012 | DC

WASHINGTON -- The lights are usually off during the day at Darnell's Bar, a well-loved but little-known watering hole on Florida Avenue NW near Howard...

Returning the Favor: Learning to Love Our Parents Unconditionally

Ned Brody | Posted 04.08.2012 | Parents
Ned Brody

My mother was more likely to break an arm chasing after us (which she did) than receive the embrace of a loving son. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that my upbringing wasn't the reason my love for her came with conditions.

Edward Brooke: The Last Statesman

D. R. Tucker | Posted 03.25.2012 | Politics
D. R. Tucker

As I read this magnificent book, I found myself regretting my youth, wishing that I had been born 40 years earlier so that I could have voted for this man in his trailblazing contests.

Customer Service Hell Up at Howard University

Jarrett L. Carter | Posted 12.31.2011 | Black Voices
Jarrett L. Carter

Howard University must admit to its constituents that its customer service has not lived up to the brand so painstakingly established through years of loyal service of select faculty and staff, and broadened by the excellence of students and alumni.