The idea of Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a holiday was promoted by labor unions in contract negotiations. After King's death, United States Representative John Conyers (a Democrat from Michigan) and United States Senator Edward Brooke (a Republican ...
Posted Friday, January 16th 2015 at 2:50PM
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105-Year-Old Graduate Reflects on School’s Impact on Her Life, Career
Beatrice Payne, 105, remembers her days training to become a teacher at the school that would later become Bowie State University.
“I just thought teaching was the grandest t ...
Posted Thursday, January 15th 2015 at 1:33PM
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Voting Open for Fans to Help Determine the Final Eight to Perform in Atlanta in January 2015
The Honda Battle of the Bands is set to make a triumphant return to Atlanta January 24, 2015, when eight of the most prestigious marching bands from Ameri ...
Posted Wednesday, January 14th 2015 at 4:08PM
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Featured Artist Kevin X. Rhodes in Dunbar Gallery, January 20 – February 26, 2015
From January 20 – February 26, 2015, Grambling State University’s Department of Visual and Performing Arts will feature an exhibition by Kevin X. Rhodes in Dunbar Ga ...
Posted Wednesday, January 14th 2015 at 3:31PM
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The Hall Johnson Summer Camp is held on the campus of Allen University for high school choral students. This camp places an emphasis on the music of Hall Johnson and the appropriate performance practice for the Negro spiritual. Campers will have a we ...
Posted Monday, January 12th 2015 at 3:22PM
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A former Florida A&M University band member was sentenced Friday to more than six years in prison for manslaughter and felony hazing in the death of a drum major, making him the first to receive prison time in the case.
Dante Martin received 77 mo ...
Posted Friday, January 9th 2015 at 3:10PM
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During the last decade diagnosis rates for HIV in the United States have fallen by around one-third and now stand at 16 cases per 100,000. While this is very promising news and an indication that strategies to prevent the spread of infection have bee ...
Posted Tuesday, January 6th 2015 at 6:36PM
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Alcorn State University announces that eligible high school students have a chance to participate in the USDA 1890 National Scholars Program and receive a scholarship to attend the university in any field of study in agriculture, food, natural resour ...
Posted Monday, January 5th 2015 at 4:53PM
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Harris-Stowe State University’s ambitious goal of becoming a regional and national leader in producing African-Americans and other underrepresented groups in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) degrees is closer to becoming a real ...
Posted Wednesday, December 17th 2014 at 3:48PM
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The Jarvis Christian College Counseling Center recently received a Behavioral Health grant from the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Center for Excellence (HBCU-CFE). The grant supports the development and implementation of a campus-wide ...
Posted Monday, December 15th 2014 at 6:10PM
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Former President of Spelman College, Bennett College to Address Graduates
Longtime educator Dr. Johnnetta Cole, who is the director of the Smithsonian National African Art Museum, will address about 380 graduates, including about 85 graduate stude ...
Posted Wednesday, December 3rd 2014 at 5:17PM
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When will it stop?
A grand jury decision not to indict Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown is over and done with. But anger over that decision is not, nor is the prospect of more arson, more loo ...
Posted Tuesday, November 25th 2014 at 4:30PM
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Taylor Turntime, a Bennett College freshman whose photograph and story appeared in the New York Times Sunday, Nov. 23 edition, is the kind of student Bennett College will provide support services to under its new Foster Care Initiative focused on inc ...
Posted Tuesday, November 25th 2014 at 4:22PM
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HOME The Documentary Movie Kicks Off The HOME National College Tour
Producer/Director Naimah Fuller Dedicates Tour To Dr. Maya Angelou
HOME focuses on the era now called “The New Great Migration”--the phenomenal rise in African Americans' retur ...
Posted Wednesday, November 19th 2014 at 12:30PM
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Heart disease is the #1 cause of death of African American women in the United States as well as providing more risks of attaining it than White women. Take action to protect your heart. View the Inforgraphic at http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/educat ...
Posted Tuesday, November 11th 2014 at 6:22PM
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When the Alcorn State University Braves kicks off its next home football game Saturday, Nov. 15, at 4:00 p.m. against Arkansas Pine Bluff, the institution will honor active military, veterans and civil service employees for their sacrifices to ensure ...
Posted Tuesday, November 11th 2014 at 2:12PM
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Courtesy of Jarrett L. Carter Founding Editor, HBCUDigest.com
Not so long ago, historically black colleges and universities were just a thorn in the side of the Obama administration. We will soon long for those days, because signs of the administ ...
Posted Monday, October 20th 2014 at 1:28PM
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South Carolina State University still owes $6.5 million on bills and needs more help from the state to move forward, President Thomas Elzey told the Budget and Control Board on Tuesday.
The state’s only public historically Black university is seek ...
Posted Wednesday, October 15th 2014 at 3:43PM
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The Nuclear Science and Security Consortium (NSSC) is accepting applications for the 2015 NSSC-MSI Summer Research Fellowship Program. Applications are due on February 2, 2015. Applicants must be U.S. citizens. Additional information and required app ...
Posted Monday, October 13th 2014 at 2:24PM
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Join a diverse group of students from around the globe in learning how to address the most pressing problems in society. The intimate WWS community offers students the opportunity to study public policy and international affairs from renowned faculty ...
Posted Friday, October 10th 2014 at 4:05PM
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Attorney Edward Pollard was elected President of the Houston Black American Democrats (H-BAD). H-BAD is a long standing progressive organization dedicated to building a strong political power base focusing on issues that directly affect the Black com ...
Posted Wednesday, October 8th 2014 at 4:43PM
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A patient with Ebola-like symptoms who had recently traveled to Nigeria is being treated at Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C., a hospital spokesperson confirmed late Friday morning.
That person has been admitted to the hospital in sta ...
Posted Friday, October 3rd 2014 at 3:43PM
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During the month of September in New York City nothing matters more for film lovers than attending Urbanworld Film Festival, the nation's largest competitive multicultural film festival....and this is year was no different! For five consecutive days ...
Posted Thursday, October 2nd 2014 at 7:50PM
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Grambling State University will unveil a newly commissioned mural honoring legendary Grambling football coach Eddie G. Robinson, the all-time winningest coach in NCAA Division 1 football, at the historic Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas.
The ceremony ...
Posted Friday, September 26th 2014 at 7:01PM
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TENURE-TRACK ASSISTANT PROFESSOR POSITION IN INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY
The University of Colorado-Boulder is looking for individuals with a specialization or expertise in integrative physiology for a tenure track position at the level of assistant professor.
Start Date: August 17, 201 ...
Posted Thursday, September 25th 2014 at 6:35PM
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