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5 Great Summer Reads Inspired By the Mecca

Consider adding these titles, all with a connection to Howard University, to your reading list this summer.

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Howard University Celebrates 6 Graduates Named 2025–2026 Fulbright Scholars

Jul 14, 2025 5 minutes
Save the Culture: Film Edition

SAVE THE CULTURE: The Essential Films of the African American Experience

Jul 11, 2025 11 minutes
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Change Makers

Howard University's trailblazers, movers, and shakers.

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Roberta Flack (B.M.E. ’58, D.Mus. ’75) Inspired Fans and Influenced Legions of Artists Across Generations

Over the course of a legendary career, Howard alumna and 4x Grammy Awardee inspired and influenced countless performers through her talent, showmanship, professionalism, and sheer charisma. 

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Howard's Goldman Case Competition Team

Howard Team Wins $1M in Goldman Sachs’ Market Madness Competition

May 8, 2025 7 minutes
Cast of Purpose Broadway Play

Howard Alumni Shine at the 2025 Tony Awards: “Purpose,” Directed by Dean Emerita Phylicia Rashad, Wins “Outstanding Broadway Play”

Jun 6, 2025 6 minutes
Dr. Sandra Jeter

Problem Solving: Howard's Project PRESS Fellows Provide Critical Social Work in D.C. Schools

May 16, 2025 5 minutes

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NBC's "TODAY with Jenna & Friends" Hosts a Howard University Reunion with Alumnae Taraji Henson, Phylicia Rashad, and Scholarship Winner Trinity Garrison

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Inside Howard's continuing singularity at the center of intellectual discourse.

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Ben Vinson speaks at MIT

We have an obligation to ensure that AI is shaped by diverse voices, not by historical biases encoded into algorithms."

President Ben Vinson Explores Artificial Intelligence During Lecture at MIT
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History & Heritage Howard's Extraordinary Legacy of Civic Leadership

Howard University alumna Congresswoman Summer Lee

History & Heritage Howard's Extraordinary Legacy of Civic Leadership

For 157 years, Howard University has served as the nexus of intellectual engagement and social advocacy to ensure that all Americans can fully exercise all the rights of citizenship. Howard alumni include first Black U.S. vice president, Supreme Court justice, popularly elected U.S. senator, popularly elected U.S. governor, and mayors of New York City, Washington, DC, and Atlanta, among numerous other luminaries which include three secretaries of federal agencies. 

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Google teams up with Howard University to improve digital speech recognition

Jun 26, 2025

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Howard University, Google Partner to Enhance A.I. Recognition of African American English

Jun 25, 2025

Inside Higher Education

Howard and Google Aim to Advance AI Technology for Black Users

Jun 25, 2025

Legendary HBCU gets exclusive Air Jordan 4

Jun 2, 2025

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