List of Howard University people. This list of Howard University people, sometimes known as Bison, includes faculty, staff, graduates, honorary graduates, non-graduate former students and current students of the American Howard University, a private, coeducational, nonsectarian historically black university, located in Washington, D.C.

Prominent graduates from Howard University include celebrities, politicians, business people, athletes and more. This list of distinguished Howard University alumni is loosely ordered by relevance, so the most recognizable celebrities who attended Howard University are at the top of the list.

Howard University is a private, federally chartered historically black university in Washington, D.C. It is categorized among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity" and accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. From its outset Howard has been nonsectarian and open to people of all sexes and races. It offers more than 120 areas leading to undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees. U.S. News & World Report ranked Howard tied for 104th among ...

Notable alumni of Howard University include former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison and Emmy Award-winning actress Phylicia Rashad.

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Read the Latest Bison News. Howard University’s College of Dentistry has received national reaccreditation for its Doctor of Dental Surgery program. Brendell Allen, 16, a junior biology student, will be welcomed by a new transfer student experience developed by Office of Undergraduate Studies. She will become the Bison she wants to be.

Nkechi Amare Diallo[pron 1], born and still commonly known as Rachel Anne Dolezal,[pron 2] is an American author, multimedia artist, former college instructor, and former NAACP chapter president. Dolezal is known for identifying as a black woman while being of European ancestry and having no verifiable African ancestry. Dolezal was president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People chapter in Spokane, Washington, from 2014 until June 2015, when she resigned in the midst

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Oliver Otis Howard. With the help and advice of the Bureau, freedmen joined Republican coalitions and won at the ballot boxes of most of the southern states. Howard was also a leader in promoting higher education for freedmen, most notably in founding Howard University in Washington and serving as its president 1867–73.