Welcome Livingstone College as the D.J's Music Site HBCU Campaign's June 2015 HBCU of the Month Supported Institution.

Began as Zion Wesley Institute in Concord, North Carolina in 1879, the school was closed after fundraising was conducted by Dr. Joseph Charles Price and Bishop J. W. Hood and re-open in 1882 a few miles north in Salisbury.

Zion Wesley Institute was originally founded by the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Zion Church. The institute changed its name to Livingstone College in 1887 to honor African missionary David Livingstone. David Livingstone was a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa. That same year in 1887, the school granted its first degree. The first group of students to graduate included eight men and two woman, the first black women to earn bachelor's degrees in North Carolina.