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Earl Francis Lloyd (1928-2015) was the first African American to play in the NBA for the Washington Capitols in 1950. Subsequently, he was also the first African American to both win an NBA Championship (1 ...
Posted Thursday, September 3rd 2015 at 5:35PM
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By Alexander Nazaryan 8/18/15 at 4:37 AM
Coutesy of NewsWeek - http://www.newsweek.com/black-colleges-matter-363667
Medgar Evers College, an overwhelmingly black branch of the City University of New York, sits atop a hill in central Brooklyn. ...
Posted Friday, August 28th 2015 at 6:08PM
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Jelisa Barringer is the 47th National Miss Black America Titleholder. She Joined the Ranks of Oprah Winfrey, Toni Braxton, Bernadette Stanis, Alexandra Morton and more.
Jelisa is a 25 year old native of Columbus, OH crowned Miss Black America 2015-1 ...
Posted Friday, August 28th 2015 at 5:25PM
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Coutesy of The Huffington Post
As Posted ByJarrett L. Carter, HBCUDigest.com
Hillary Clinton today became the latest democratic presidential hopeful to call for increased higher education access through loan or tuition-free governmental fun ...
Posted Friday, August 21st 2015 at 6:28PM
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By Carmen Jones
Courtesy of XOJane.com
One day I woke up, and Twitter had exploded. A young Black woman had gotten everyone into a tizzy. “A 4.0 at an HBCU is not equivalent to a 4.0 at a PWI,” she tweeted. It really got me thinking. Is ...
Posted Friday, August 21st 2015 at 6:23PM
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Allen University has opened its doors to the new Mother Mary Ann Norris Honors Program Center.
Angel Risher is the current Miss Allen University. She and the other honors students in her class will be the first to graduate in the honors program ...
Posted Friday, August 21st 2015 at 5:57PM
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NBMBAA Entrepreneurial Institute®(EI), is a “must attend” day long series of business development workshops and breakthrough training sessions. The EI attracts new entrepreneurs, current business owners and small business professionals seeking the knowledge and tools of success. EI provides professional development via workshops, panels, discussions, networking opportunities and ...
Posted Monday, July 27th 2015 at 5:56PM
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Chicago, IL and Houston, TX - In its search for proven and flexible instructional programs to serve its mission of, “empowering students, parents, teachers, administrators and community leaders in an effort to develop independent learners&rdquo ...
Posted Friday, July 24th 2015 at 3:10PM
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Breaking color barriers is par for the course for African Americans. Lee Elders did exactly that 40 years ago by making history for becoming the first African American to attend the Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia in 1975. In a star studded ce ...
Posted Thursday, July 23rd 2015 at 4:58PM
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The Second Annual National HBCU Pre-Law Summit will be held on Friday, September 25th and Saturday, September 26th, 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia. This is the only national conference in the country created especially for HBCU students and graduates inter ...
Posted Tuesday, July 21st 2015 at 6:14PM
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Tomorrow, July 17th, Congresswoman Alma Adams, Ph.D (NC-12) will host a Twitter chat about HBCUs. This week, 19 HBCU Presidents and Chancellors were on Capitol Hill to celebrate 1890 Land Grant institutions. Congresswoman Adams wants to keep the cele ...
Posted Thursday, July 16th 2015 at 5:26PM
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Allen University has created a scholarship fund to honor three alumni who lost their lives in the historic Mother Emanuel - African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) church massacre on June 17, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina. The Allen Universit ...
Posted Monday, July 6th 2015 at 5:31PM
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Posted Friday, July 3rd 2015 at 7:02PM
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Contributor: Tanisha LaVerne Grant
Malcolm Lee, Kevin Hart, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and David Oyelowo are among 322 artist who have been invited to join the The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Tanisha LaVerne Grant Entertainment correspondent ...
Posted Friday, July 3rd 2015 at 3:48PM
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Black Americans made strides in the job market in June, with their unemployment rate reaching its lowest level in seven years.
The black unemployment rate fell to 9.5 percent, the best showing since a 9.4 percent reading in June 2008.
Despite the i ...
Posted Thursday, July 2nd 2015 at 3:47PM
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A fervent dream became reality today for ballerina Misty Copeland as she became the first black female principal dancer in the 75-year history of the American Ballet Theatre.
It is one of the highest honors for a performer.
"I'm just so honored, so ...
Posted Tuesday, June 30th 2015 at 6:54PM
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The 19th Annual American Black Film Festival kicked off on Thursday night with the New York City Premier of Open Road Films "DOPE" a coming of age dramedy directed by Rick Famuyiwa, produced by Forest Whitaker, and executive produced by Pharrell Will ...
Posted Friday, June 19th 2015 at 4:02PM
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Allen University has lost two Alumni during a senseless shooting at Emanuel AME church in Charleston, SC last night. The youngest victim was Mr. Tywanza Sanders -2014 graduate of the Division of Business Administration. He was a quiet, well known stu ...
Posted Thursday, June 18th 2015 at 6:25PM
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LeMoyne-Owen College Board of Trustees Chair Robert Lipscomb proudly announced Memphis, Tennessee native and 1976 LOC graduate Dr. Andrea Lewis Miller as the college’s 12th president after an exhaustive national search. “Today marks a new ...
Posted Friday, June 12th 2015 at 2:00PM
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By Kia Kokalitcheva/Fortune
Google has updated it workplace demographics data, a year after an initial report showed huge gender and racial disparities.
Acknowledging a problem may be the first step in fixing it, but that migh ...
Posted Monday, June 1st 2015 at 7:40PM
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It's our turn.... In star studded fashion The Paley Center for Media paid tribute Wednesday night to African-Americans in all facets of film, television, comedy, and journalism. The gala which took place at an exclusive Cipriani event space on Wall S ...
Posted Thursday, May 21st 2015 at 7:00PM
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First Lady, Michelle Obama, spoke to the graduating class of 2015 at Tuskegee University. First lady Michelle Obama delivered the commencement address to the 2015 graduates of Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama, in which she talks about growing ...
Posted Tuesday, May 19th 2015 at 1:34PM
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Graduating is the pinnacle achievement in most young people’s lives. It is the culmination of several years of learning, growing and maturing into someone that is prepared to produce positive results that will serve themselves and society productively. One local family will get to experience the joy and celebrations that graduating brings four times in less than a month as the entire fami ...
Posted Tuesday, May 12th 2015 at 1:56PM
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Alcorn State University sends its deepest sympathy to the family of former Head Men’s Basketball Coach, Davey “The Wiz” Whitney Sr., who died yesterday at age 85.During his tenure at Alcorn (1969-1989 and 1996-2003), he cap ...
Posted Monday, May 11th 2015 at 1:31PM
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Enthusiastic supporters gathered in the Millet Activity Center on April 19, to support the candidates for Mr. and Miss Oakwood 2015.Miss Oakwood is Lauren Eaton, a senior Spanish and English major from Loma Linda, California. Her mission is to demons ...
Posted Thursday, April 30th 2015 at 5:04PM
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