As a Morehouse, Berkeley and Harvard-educated man, a world of opportunities has been available to Nathan Bennett Fleming. Instead of starting his career by working on Wall Street or for some prestigious law firm, Fleming and five other partners decided to take a different path. They are the co-founders of BlackStartup.com, which is a crowdfunding platform for ideas, projects, and [...]

Simply having a college degree will not get you hired. We need to break away from this idea. In all reality, most employers could care less about your GPA or where you went to school. Today, getting hired in entry-level positions requires experience and fine-tuned skills, not a 4.0 GPA. This probably isn’t what most new grads want to hear, [...]

A little more than a year after a shooting left a Petersburg man dead and a Virginia State University student wounded just off campus, VSU student Ryan Christopher Simms will go on trial today on charges he killed a man in a drug rip-off scheme that went terribly wrong. The jury trial, which is scheduled to last four days, comes [...]

Tommy Meade is the Senior Editor of HBCU Buzz. Follow him on Twitter: @tommymeade If you are a underachiever in your studies, maybe you ought to skip college and become a plumber instead. Well at least that is what billionaire and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg advised ‘so-so’ students to do in order to avoid expensive college fees. @dailymailus [...]