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Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have made a significant impact in American life. HBCUs make up only 3% of the nation’s four year colleges but they have educated 50% of black teachers, 50% of its black doctors, and 80% of the nation’s black judges, 40% of the black engineers, 40% of the black members of Congress, and 13% of the black CEOs in the nation today (Hill, 2019). HBCUs have played a major role in creating and maintaining the black middle class. It is important for these schools to survive. In total, the nation’s HBCUs generate $14.8 billion economic impact annually and generate 134, 000 jobs for their local and regional economies. The presence of an HBCU boosts economic activity beyond the campus. It leads to stronger communities and a more developed workforce (UNCF, 2014). However state funding cuts, declining enrollment, increasing competition, and lack of alumni support threaten the future of HBCUs.

Nowadays, the world facing so many problems like an increase in human population, global warming, energy crisis, decrease in food availability, disease outbreak, and other so many environmental-related problems that require a solution. One of the solutions to all this is cyanobacteria, which is also known as blue-green algae. Cyanobacteria are Gram-negative bacteria, widely distributed, havea simple genome, required simple nutrients for growth, and performed oxygenic photosynthesis. Cyanobacteria possess such types of mechanisms that are easily adaptable to environmental changes and grow rapidly and dense. Cyanobacteriaare useful in agriculture as biofertilizers, increase soil fertility, and nitrogen fixation, etc. can convert nitrogen into ammonia and help in nitrogen fixation. Cyanobacteria can produce bioactive compounds which having different biological activities like antibacterial, antifungal, antialgal, anti-cancer, etc. They are also helpful in bioremediation. Cyanobacteria produce pigments, enzymes, and vitamins that are helpful for industrial purposes. Besides all this, they are also used as food or nutrient supplements. Cyanobacteria are widely distributed, and easily grow enabling their use in so many different fields and development at the industrial level. Maybe there are so many hurdles we facing to solve all problems but cyanobacteria give hope to solving all these.