Hello to all my HBCUCONNECT readers!
It is with my distinct pleasure to present the following special invite to the HBCU community!
Microsoft is inviting all of you to attend a very special webinar titled "Women at Microsoft: An Inside Look." A number of techncial women across their Windows, W ...
Posted Friday, March 28th 2014 at 8:31PM
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Feb 2014 BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) Healthcare Employment Statistics: For the third consecutive month overall healthcare employment had little change, increasing by 10,000 in February. Hospital employment declined by 1,000 in February, and ha ...
Posted Friday, March 28th 2014 at 1:31PM
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WASHINGTON -- More than 6 million people have signed up for private health plans under the Affordable Care Act, the Obama administration said Thursday.
But health insurers are still waiting to see if the check is in the mail.
The Department of ...
Posted Friday, March 28th 2014 at 1:16PM
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An arrest warrant has been issued for “Scandal” star Columbus Short for felony aggravated battery stemming from his bar fight earlier this month, reports TMZ. The actor allegedly sucker-punched a man after he made a crack about Short’s wife. The vic ...
Posted Friday, March 28th 2014 at 6:36AM
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"IT'S SWAGGER"
The revisiting of the dance, music, soul and culture springs still in the heart of British Culture. Yet, also springing from the sounds of Soul from the heartland of the United States Afro-American Black communities many White Brit ...
Posted Thursday, March 27th 2014 at 6:06PM
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Charlotte, NC — A man was arrested and charged with assault after he allegedly tried to suck a woman’s toes in a local Walmart in Charlotte area North Carolina. The man, whose name is Michael A. Brown reportedly approached a woman in the shoe departm ...
Posted Thursday, March 27th 2014 at 2:54PM
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Sharp differences over abortion and birth control surfaced as President Barack Obama held his first meeting Thursday with Pope Francis, even as the president sought to emphasize common ground issues like economic inequality during a much-anticipated ...
Posted Thursday, March 27th 2014 at 2:48PM
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Laz Alonso is ready and willing to reprise his starring role in another Jumping the Broom movie, but he’s still waiting to find out if the rumors of a sequel are true. “Sony has been very, very tight-lipped about this,” he told Sister 2 Sister. “The ...
Posted Thursday, March 27th 2014 at 2:37PM
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Your World News
March 26
Year 2014
Global
"The largest single health risk..."
Air pollution has been linked to 7 million deaths annually. This is according to a report recently issued by the World Health Organization. WHO said that air p ...
Posted Wednesday, March 26th 2014 at 8:29PM
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What is health? A check-up with your doctor often focuses on making sure we are not sick – checking our blood pressures, mammograms, pap smears and colonoscopies. These are all excellent things we must keep on top of, but do not always necessarily fo ...
Posted Wednesday, March 26th 2014 at 5:37PM
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Hoping to give Democrats' minimum wage legislation a boost in Congress, the White House released a report on Wednesday making the case that raising the wage floor would benefit women in particular and help close the gender wage gap. The report, prod ...
Posted Wednesday, March 26th 2014 at 5:34PM
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Dedicated mother and church member, Mary Virginia Jones (she’s affectionately called, “Mother Mary”) was sentenced to life in prison in 1982, without the possibility of parole for murder, kidnapping and robbery involving her abusive then-boyfriend, ...
Posted Wednesday, March 26th 2014 at 11:43AM
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(March 3, 2014) OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Legislation that would ban the sale of e-cigarettes to minors and set a penalty for such sales is available for a vote on the floor of the Oklahoma House of Representatives. House Bill 2904, by state Rep. Pat Ownb ...
Posted Tuesday, March 25th 2014 at 2:44PM
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(March 24, 2014). CNN (CNN) -- Amid the void of information on their fates, it seems at times that the passengers and crew of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 have been reduced to a number. Two hundred and thirty-nine. Yet, as their families and others ...
Posted Tuesday, March 25th 2014 at 2:34PM
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YOUR NATIONAL/WORLD NEWS
Day 22
March 2014
Oso, Washington
Epic mudslide slew over the neighboring city of Seattle, Washington in the town of Oso on Saturday, March 22, 2013. The major mudslide dumped mud covering several homes and also disc ...
Posted Monday, March 24th 2014 at 6:54PM
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