A new four-part docuseries, "Honda Battle of the Bands Presents Driving the Legacy of HBCUs," begins with HOME. Host and Prairie View A&M University Alumna Loni Love explores HBCUs' history and impact on American culture and what makes them feel like home.
Two years before the start of the Civil War, Col. Jared Ellison Kirby issued a blunt advertisement seeking the return of “runaway” slaves. Three enslaved men had fled the Alta Vista Plantation, and Kirby was convinced they were headed to Mexico. The slave-owner never found them. Now, on the same grounds from which the men [...]
NEW YORK, January 12, 2022 – The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) today announced the next round of investments, partnerships and grants for the One Million Black Women initiative. The announcement was made following the January 12 One Million Black Women Advisory Council meeting, which consists of 17 Black business and community leaders. At the meeting, One Million Black [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas - 2021 has been a remarkable one for Prairie View A&M University, despite the continuous fight against COVID-19. PVAMU has continued to stick to its core values of achieving excellence, teaching, research and service. The university had many outstanding moments, from launches, historic donations, new initiatives, faces, buildings and championships. As we [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (December 2, 2021) - Prairie View A&M University is set to receive a boost that will make more historical documents available to researchers, students and the public. A team consisting of University Archivist Phyllis Earles, Special Collections Librarian Lisa Stafford and History Professor DeWayne Moore, Ph.D., has been awarded two highly competitive [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas — In-person learning resumed at Prairie View A&M University at the end of August, and the campus was soon buzzing with familiar sounds and sights: freshmen laughing in the dining hall, students walking across the sprawling yard in between classes. There were also inescapable nods to our current era, like signs on [...]
After George Floyd’s murder, Ruth J. Simmons, president of Prairie View A&M University in Texas, made a commitment to students to advance their understanding of discrimination in the United States. That pledge included the creation of a Center for Race and Justice – which opened in March – and a new post for an activist-in-residence, [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (October 6, 2021) - Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) has announced that scholar and co-founder of the Los Angeles Chapter of Black Lives Matter, Melina Abdullah, will be the university’s inaugural Activist-In-Residence for the 2021-2022 academic year. The Activist-in-Residence will be charged with teaching students more about their power as change agents [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (September 27, 2021) - “We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.” These are powerful words spoken by the late Toni Morrison, a prolific essayist, novelist, book editor, college professor, and the first African-American woman to win the Nobel [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (July 2, 2021) – A $4 million gift from The Brown Foundation, Inc. to Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) will support President Ruth J. Simmons’ Strategic Initiatives, including the work of the Ruth J. Simmons Center for Race and Justice. “The Foundation holds a steadfast belief in forging pathways to opportunity through education, and [...]
