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Diving In

Freshman Isaiah Swilley from Bourbonnais, Illinois, takes a practice dive at the Burr Gymnasium Pool. Howard is the only HBCU with a Division I swimming and diving team.

Expressions

climate change causes droughts, rising sea levels drawing

Elevating Environmental Protection and Our Priorities

Climate vulnerability disproportionately affects African American communities. One way to change this? At the polls.

  • J. Jarpa Dawuni, associate professor of political science and founding director of Howard University Center for Women, Gender, and Global Leadership

    How Howard Advances Women

    The election of Kamala Harris (BA ’86) to the vice presidency of the United States is testament to the principles upon which Howard was founded in 1867.

  • GiShawn Mance, PhD

    The Growth of Mental Health Awareness

    With 1 in 5 adults in the United States experiencing mental illness, there is growing acknowledgement of mental health as an aspect of overall health.

  • Jeffery Tribble, Jr.

    Facing the Music

    As schools reevaluate their budgets year after year, music and the performing arts are often on the chopping block. But it’s music that can sometimes be the answer, the path for these children, towards something bigger.

  • Law professor Justin Hansford

    Mood Swings

    Law professor Justin Hansford talks about the shifting tides of politics following Biden's victory.

  • Anthony Wutoh, Ph.D., R.Ph., on Howard University's campus

    Moving Forward

    Provost and Chief Academic Officer Anthony Wutoh shares pandemic challenges, processes to bring the campus back to life and his latest baking quests.

  • Ravi Perry

    No Peace

    “No justice, no peace” was among the rallying cries of Howard students who led a march in June 2020 from the hilltop campus to the White House, demanding change.