Posts Tagged ‘hampton university’

Who Needs Howard’s Homecoming When There’s the “Booty Wall”?

It's a big week over at Howard University, what with homecoming festivities and all. There's all kinds of stuff on tap: the Homecoming Fashion Show, the Homecoming YardFest, the Homecoming R&B Concert, the Homecoming Step Show, the Homecoming Kings and Queens Reception (IMPORTANT NOTE: Unlike its rival among historically black institutions, Hampton University in Virginia, [...]

First, a Non-Black Homecoming Queen; Now, a Non-Black Mayor?

Fresh on the heels of all the hullabaloo on historically black Hampton University in Virginia naming its first non-black Miss HU, some in the majority-black city up I-95, Baltimore, are in a bit of a tizzy themselves over the possibility that a white person could become mayor if Sheila Dixon is convicted of a crime. [...]

The Newly Crowned Miss Hampton University Is Not Black. OMG!

The historically black Hampton University in Virginia crowned Nikole Churchill its first non-black Miss HU last week, causing what the local newspaper, the Daily Press, politely called a "division on campus." As in, some students walked out of her crowning ceremony, apparently unable to accept the possibility that anyone who is not African-American could be [...]