It's Week 1 of the 2026 Football season, and we have another full slate of games. @DataDrivenHBCU will have your coverage of these games! Be sure to subscribe to receive emails so you don't miss out! datadrivenhbcu.com/newslette…

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RT @bronze_bombSHEL: The curfew at an HBCU stems from first semester pregnancy at HBCUs because a huge demo of black parents demonized sex…

The Week 4 #HBCU football preview: the #StateFairClassic, the #BoomboxClassic, Texas Southern at Alcorn State, and South Carolina State at Bethune-Cookman headline a loaded SWAC slate. datadrivenhbcu.com/2026/09/2…

Wait until you learn what 40+-year-old Black professionals do in October during Homecoming Szn.

Say hello to the newest Hall of Famers 🤩 Join us this afternoon at 3:30pm as we celebrate the Class of 2026 before kickoff at the HOF game vs. Rhode Island! 💙💛

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We used to play "3 flags up" and boy!!! Bloody lips, busted fingers, black eyes... Some kid lost some permanent teeth. The principal stopped us from playing it then. Same with Basketball and some game we called "PacBall," which was like a souped-up volleyball game.

These Pokemon scalpers are fucking SICK and deplorable for this. Jail em immediately.

We are playing Penn in football and basketball this year @DerajiPHenson

Man, at this rate, the next #HBCUNightly show will be one for the ages. You might end up seeing both Aggies and Eagles come together and defend one another. SMH LOL.

You can win despite disinterest from the board and academic leadership, but the approach to how you do it might have to change. Additionally, you’ve got to have an AD who hires well and coaches who are industrious with their limited resources.

Are you sure?

Folks May agree with @SenatorTimScott politics or they may not. But this still helps @SCSTATE1896. I appreciate it. For SCSU to maximize its potential we need friends on both sides of the aisle. We don’t need enemies on either either side of it.

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Folks feelings going to be hurt when half of the SWAC's schedule looks exactly like that...

It's violent today, and I don't know why. We need peace around these parts. Where is Rodney King when you need him?

SMH..I’m gonna say this again for the cheap seats. The D1 HBCU programs that have been in and around the big dance every year, understand that scheduling is a HUGE part of that equation. You want an example? Howard, Tennessee State, and Norfolk State IMMEDIATELY come to mind. You aren’t gonna SEE 16, 17, or 18 game stretches away from home to start a season from those programs. IJS

Mane listen…I got a substack coming out on this topic closer to the actual start of the season. I’ll just say this and keep it moving: Paying the bills is one thing, but the programs in our family that WIN, are programs that understand that all road warrior money ain’t good money. They also understand that you build programs the RIGHT way when you find balance with that scheduling. Schedule regionally. Reach out to mid-majors and build relationships between leagues. Maybe most importantly, NEGOTIATE for home & homes where WE get the lion’s share of that cash. It can be done. Howard, Norfolk State, even the SWAC as a whole was able to do this with the PAC 12 a few seasons back.

Who founded an institution tells you its history. Who funds it tells you who is in charge. HBCUs grew out of four funding traditions, and each carries its own answer to the question of control: 1. Public HBCUs are owned by the state through charter and controlled by the state through funding. The overwhelming majority sit in the South, answering to state governments and legislatures that remain predominantly white and, in most of those states, firmly conservative. That power reaches the budget, the mission, the curriculum, and, as we have watched across the country, the presidency itself, where searches are bypassed and qualifications waived for whoever is politically acceptable or favored by those holding the purse and the pen. When the owner and the funder are one, there is no independence. 2. Institutions built with white philanthropy learned early that a benefactor never needs a deed. For generations, those dollars decided who led, what was taught, and whether our students were trained to labor or to lead, to assimilate or to resist. Most often, the answer was assimilation. The aim was the respectable graduate, polished, credentialed, and acceptable to the society that paid the bills, and that culture of assimilation and ascension still shapes many of those campuses today. 3. HBCUs founded by white religious denominations carried the mission and the money of their churches, and with both came their theology, their governance, and their expectations. Their graduates were free to preach, so long as the gospel they carried stayed within the place those denominations had assigned them. 4. HBCUs founded by Black religious denominations came closest to true independence. Built by Black congregations with nickels and dimes collected in the pews, they were ours from the first brick. They continue to pay for that independence with scarce resources, but they never had to ask anyone's permission to exist. But none of us escaped the fifth funder. Today federal student aid pays much of the tuition our institutions depend on, and federal grants cover more still. At many of our institutions, Washington is the largest funder of all. It now holds the purse that philanthropists and denominations once held. The rule is simple. If I am the source of 51 percent or more of your budget, I do more than influence you. I possess enormous leverage over you. Majority funding creates dependency, and dependency constrains independence. Our independence will not be measured by the size of our endowments. It will be measured by whose money built them. That is why federal support for our institutions must be understood not as charity, granted or withdrawn at will, but as a legal remedy owed for harms the nation itself inflicted. That remedy must be secured in law, not left to budgetary discretion, because support renegotiated every year is simply another form of control. Until our support rests on legal obligation rather than favor, our independence will remain borrowed.

Sigh... Y'all are really making me write about D1 HBCU scheduling this week. And no, #MVSU isn't the only #MEAC, #SWAC, or #MidMajor basketball team with a similar schedule.