The College of Fine Arts theatre season has been filled with student-led productions; its most recent one is a staged reading of the play “Black Bone” by Tina Fakhrid-Deen. Fakhrid-Deen is a ...

Last day of operation of Howard University Starbucks (Mia Butler/The Hilltop) Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol announced the closing of 1 percent of Starbucks locations throughout North America. This ...

Assata Shakur, a former member of the Black Liberation Army and one of the most widely debated figures in American political history, died in Havana, Cuba, last week at 78 years old. Shakur spent more ...

National conversations are emerging over efforts to remove the famed 1863 photograph “The Scourged Back” from public display after a March 2025 executive order signed by President Donald Trump. The ...

Kamala Harris greets students in The Valley during a surprise visit to Howard University on Friday, where she promoted her new book, 107 Days. (Tara Grey/The Hilltop) Many Howard University students ...

Coach Mitch Love during an interview with WTV. (Photo courtesy of TheAHL via Wikimedia Commons) As the 2025-26 National Hockey League (NHL) season looms overhead, the Washington Capitals now face ...

Several Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), either closed or went on lockdown following campus threats earlier this month. Hampton University, Bethune-Cookman University, Southern ...

Howard alumni Dylan Beard and Jessika Gbai made it to the semi-finals of the World Athletic Championships Tokyo 2025. Jessika Gbai (pictured in the middle) at the 2024 African Athletics Championship ...

A group of women who say they are survivors of Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted child sex offender, shared their experiences on Capitol Hill and urged lawmakers to support the release of records claimed ...

Rebecca Celeste, a 2024 Howard alumna making her first on stage debut since graduation, recalls looking at herself in the mirror and thinking, “You’re actually doing it.” Celeste stepped into the ...

A student gazes upon several photos presented in Temples of Hope, Rituals of Survival (Photo courtesy of Billie Lee and Moorland-Spingarn Research Center) Three years after acquiring 244 photographs ...

Howard University Football began its season Aug. 30, with a narrow but decisive 10-9 victory over Florida A&M University in the Orange Blossom Classic at Hard Rock Stadium. The decisive moment came ...