On this day in 1910, Dr. James Edward Shepard opened the doors to students as the National Religious Training School and Chautauqua for the Colored Race.
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Young alumni who are movers and shakers under 40 are being honored virtually this year.
NCCU students compete annually for Albert Schweitzer Fellowships, which help bring medical care and assistance to low-income and underserved communities.
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What became of the 42 African men and women who disembarked along the Cape Fear River at Port Brunswick in the 1740s is still not known.
It might be easy to mistake room 3221 in the university’s Mary Townes Science Complex for a miniature manufacturing plant tucked away on campus.
In 2019, Corey Joyce, NCCU slugger, became the second draft pick in school history.
A pilot project at NCCU’s Research Center in Minority Institutions will help scientists understand how air quality may affect people differently depending on where they live and their racial background.
Fields of blooming clary sage stand in contrast to the rows of peanuts and cotton along the backroads of Eastern North Carolina.
Carolyn Marie Smith Green, 89, of Henderson, N.C., a devoted Golden Eagle and a member of North Carolina Central University’s founding family, died Aug. 7, 2019.
The highest university accreditation organization in the nation has added an Eagle to its board of directors.
NCCU adjunct professor MALIK MUHAMMAD, PH.D., still remembers feeling left out and misunderstood as a child, especially after moving from his hometown of Chicago to Palo Alto, Calif.
By day, NCCU doctoral student Kala Nwachukwu researches the neuroimmune system within the brain and how it responds to binge-like consumption of alcohol in the Mary M. Townes Science Complex.
This year, extraordinary efforts by Department of Mass Communication Associate Professor Shauntae Brown White, Ph.D., earned special recognition from the University of North Carolina Board of Governors.
NCCU Jazz Studies Assistant Professor Lenora Helm Hammonds has released an album featuring NCCU students, faculty and alumni.
The impact of COVID-19 has affected everyone’s daily life, with our “new” normal consisting of online classes, teleworking and virtual engagement – just to name a few of recent changes.