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Today Bank of America announced Fisk University Galleries as one of 23 grant recipients for the 2021 Bank of America Art Conservation Project (ACP). The project provides grant funding to…

Fisk University is proud to announce our partnership with The Music Business Association (Music Biz). Fisk will be the first HBCU to join its Academic Partnership program. “The integration of the…

Fisk University announced today one of the largest gifts in its 155-year history, a $3 million donation from Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. The gift will support infrastructural improvements to classroom…

Recently Fisk University completed construction of its first E-Sports Arena.  The new venue features a 1000 square foot gaming area that houses 15 gaming stations.  These stations are surrounded by nearly…

Fisk University is delighted to announce that renowned journalist and television personality Roland Martin will serve as the University’s inaugural “Reavis L. Mitchell,” Distinguished Scholar in Residence. Roland Martin will…

Fisk University announced today the single largest gift from a Nashville family since Fisk’s inception in 1866.  The $2.5 million gift from Amy and Frank Garrison will be utilized for…

The National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) will present musical pioneers Quincy Jones, Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson and the Fisk Jubilee Singers® with Rhapsody & Rhythm Awards during the…

‘Walk Together Children: The 150th Anniversary of the Fisk Jubilee Singers’ will be available through Vimeo On Demand April 26 – May 10 with proceeds supporting…

Fisk University is thrilled to announce that the Galleries have been awarded a $500,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This two-year grant will support the conservation of the…

  The Fisk University John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library has received $180,000.00 from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) to digitize, describe, and make the Fiskiana…