Guest column: Xavier University student Kyla Willis recounts for nascent environmental activism at the New Orleans campus, calls for a bigger role for Black and Brown activists.

Xavier University of Louisiana, playing baseball for the first time since 1960, climbed to No. 1 in the Black College Nines small-school HBCU rankings announced Thursday.

Alaysia Miller of Terrebonne High School signed with Xavier University of Louisiana to play college volleyball on Friday.