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Accolades

National Black Movie Day: Two Howard Shorts You Should Watch This Weekend

Meet two Howard storytellers whose award-winning films explore the cost of certainty and the fragility of connection.

Feb 20, 2026 3 minutes

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Dr. Jelani Cobb

Lineage: Howard Students and Alumni

‘Full of Strength’: Dr. Jelani Cobb’s Howard Origins

Feb 20, 2026 8 minutes

Side by side photos of two howard university graduate students. There is a woman on the left who is wearing a head covering and folding her arms. The man on the right is smiling while wearing a white lab coat and grey wash jeans

Accolades

Howard Biology Ph.D. Students Selected for ESA’s 2026 Graduate Student Policy Award

Feb 19, 2026 3 minutes

Feb King Lecture Series panel

Thought Leadership and Epiphanies

Policy, Power, and the Future of HBCUs Spotlighted at February King Endowed Chair Lecture

Feb 19, 2026 8 minutes

Jeremy Randall with Elijah Cummings

In Your Words

Leading by Example: Jeremy Randall (B.S. '00), Howard's Director of Advancement Services

Jan 27, 2022 3 minutes

Sanaa Haamen, Howard student president of Muslim Student Association standing by fall colored tree

In Your Words

An Empathetic Leader: Sanaa Haamen, President of Muslim Student Association

Jan 27, 2022 3 minutes

ROTC commencement 2021

Community

Leadership University: How Howard Cultivates the Next Generation of Leaders

Jan 27, 2022 5 minutes

Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking at Rankin Chapel December 7, 1956

Change Makers

Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy at Howard

Jan 27, 2022 4 minutes

News

New Exhibition at Howard University: New Acquisitions And African-American Masters

Jan 10, 2022 4 minutes

In Your Words

Service as a Way of Life: Nya Parker, Alternative Spring Break Executive Student Director

Dec 27, 2021 3 minutes

Tymek Jones reading picture book, The Undefeated

In Your Words

Building Society Through Service: Tymek Jones, Mr. Residence Life

Dec 27, 2021 3 minutes

Students volunteering with school children in school uniforms in classroom

Philanthropy

A Service Orientation: How Alternative Spring Break Made Service the Default at Howard

Dec 27, 2021 4 minutes

Volunteers for Food2Feed holding signs and yellow buckets for donations on street

Philanthropy

Taking Service Ahead Through Howard Forward

Dec 27, 2021 5 minutes

people receiving information at a pink table about breast cancer outside hospital

Community

Outflanking Cancer: The  Howard University Cancer Center

Oct 28, 2021 8 minutes