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Fisk University made history in 2023 as the first historically Black college or university to field a women's gymnastics team. On Friday, the university announced plans to discontinue the program ...
A rediscovered trove of Mary McLeod Bethune's papers at Fisk University links Nashville to America’s continuing fight for ...
NASHVILLE — The towering portrait of noted abolitionist Frederick Douglass arrived at Fisk University to great fanfare. A gift from W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the university's most famous graduates ...
Fisk University will become the first HBCU school to launch and host an intercollegiate women's gymnastics program. The inaugural season will commence in January 2023.
♦ Fisk University men’s basketball team won the 2003 Great South Athletic Conference Championship. ... The areas are decorated with the fraternity or sorority’s colors and symbols.
Fisk University's Liberty Mora, right front, is embraced by teammates after performing on the floor during a Super 16 gymnastics meet Friday, Jan. 6, 2023, in Las Vegas.
The Fisk University Jubilee Quartet in 1909, from left: Alfred G. King (first bass), James A. Myers (second tenor), Noah W. Ryder (second bass) and John W. Work II (first tenor).
Established in January 1866 to educate newly freed slaves of all ages, Fisk University -- originally known as the Fisk Free Colored School -- would eventually become a premiere liberal arts ...
The Fisk University Lady Bulldogs are continually making history.. Already home to America’s first HBCU gymnastics team, the Nashville, Tennessee-based Black college will host a joint gymnastics ...
Fisk University competes as first HBCU with women's gymnastics team 01:40. Forty-one years since the first NCAA women's gymnastics championship, an HBCU has a team of its own.
Last week, Fisk University finished fourth at the Super 16 gymnastics invitational in Las Vegas. At the same time, the women's team from the Nashville school also recorded an even more important ...
NASHVILLE (AP) — Fisk University's bold experiment in women's gymnastics is coming to an end. The school has announced it is shuttering the program at the end of the 2026 season. Fisk made ...