By Dawn Dugan, Salary.com contributing writer.
For job seekers, the resume may be the most important document they need. After all, what's on that simple piece of paper can mean the difference between landing an interview and landing in the circular file.
While most job seekers concentrate on ...
Posted Friday, January 18th 2013 at 2:39PM
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Fourteen Alcorn students have been selected to witness the nation's government in action and attend the quadrennial presidential inauguration January 17-22, 2013. Their trip will include participating in community service projects during "A National ...
Posted Thursday, January 17th 2013 at 5:43PM
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Fighting the Good Fight -- Leukemia _ Carol Martin Hicks
Carol is in the fight of her life and needs a bone marrow transplant.... Carol was recently diagnosed with a form of leukemia called "Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia" (ALL).
In bone marrow tra ...
Posted Wednesday, January 16th 2013 at 5:10PM
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National Museum of American Jewish History Honors Legacy of Martin Luther King on Monday, Jan. 21
Museum to be OPEN and FREE with Family Activities!
The National Museum of American Jewish History is OPEN and FREE on MLK Day, a day filled with ...
Posted Tuesday, January 15th 2013 at 5:14PM
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When Texas Southern University Student Regent Juan Sorto arrives in Washington, D.C. January 21st for the second inauguration of President Barack Obama, he will not only be there to bask in the experience of watching the democratic process at work, b ...
Posted Tuesday, January 15th 2013 at 3:04PM
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Judgement Yard, Jamaica - Scratchylus is the father of 8 year old rising star Empress Reggae who was recently featured for her poetry as a part of Irie FM's 2012 Marcus Garvey Earthstrong Celebration. Most recently Scratchylus & Empress Reggae has be ...
Posted Friday, January 11th 2013 at 5:19PM
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The founder and CEO of the Children’s Defense Fund Marian Wright Edelman will bring to remembrance the great legacy of Alcorn State University as she delivers the keynote address at the 2013 Heritage Convocation in the historic Oakland Memorial Chape ...
Posted Friday, January 11th 2013 at 2:36PM
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THE AWARD WINNING OUR STORY MOVIE starring SIZZLA KALONJI, EMPRESS REGGAE, SCRATCHYLUS mov YouTube
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Posted Tuesday, January 8th 2013 at 8:15PM
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Alcorn’s Myrlie Evers has accepted President Barack Obama’s invitation to deliver the invocation at his public inauguration on January 21. Evers, a champion for civil rights and the wife of civil rights martyr Medgar Wiley Evers '52, is the first lay ...
Posted Tuesday, January 8th 2013 at 3:05PM
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Willa Brown Chappell was a pioneering aviator who co-founded the National Airmen’s Association of America, an organization whose mission was to get African Americans into the United States Air Force.
Inspired by Bessie Coleman, Chappell (then know ...
Posted Monday, January 7th 2013 at 4:03PM
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We all know about the famous Tuskegee Airmen, but have you ever thought about women being pilots in those times as well? Start thinking and do your research on these extraordinary women. Today we honor the often overlooked Tuskegee Airwomen.
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Posted Monday, January 7th 2013 at 4:01PM
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Anderson, Charles A. "Chief" (1907-1996)
Eleanor Roosevelt and Charles Anderson, April 1941
On April 19, 1941, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt visited Tuskegee Institute. During her visit she asked Chief Anderson if African Americans could really navi ...
Posted Monday, January 7th 2013 at 3:59PM
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The Tuskegee Airmen were dedicated, determined young men who enlisted to become America's first black military airmen, at a time when there were many people who thought that black men lacked intelligence, skill,
courage and patriotism. They came fro ...
Posted Monday, January 7th 2013 at 3:57PM
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President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama greet Tuskegee Airmen prior... to a screening of Red Tails Movie in the Family Theater of the White House, Jan. 13, 2012.
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Posted Monday, January 7th 2013 at 3:55PM
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Africa - Ethnolinguistic Map of the Peoples (1972)
Published in December 1971 with the article “The Zulus: Black Nation in a Land of Apartheid ,” this map is a supplement to the “Heritage of Africa ” map printed in the same issue.
Featuring a physi ...
Posted Monday, January 7th 2013 at 3:43PM
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Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee they are a perfect example of everlasting Black love!!!! 52yrs of marriage!!
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Posted Monday, January 7th 2013 at 3:41PM
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Bern Keating, 1954, Mississippi / USA
‘Blacks seated in back of bus under Mississippi segregation law’ / from ‘Black Star’
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Posted Monday, January 7th 2013 at 3:39PM
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Diahann Carroll performing at JFK’s birthday party in 1962, with Marilyn Monroe in the crowd watching. She looks pretty enamored!
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Posted Monday, January 7th 2013 at 3:38PM
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President Obama and his family arriving at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial for today's dedication ceremony. The memorial to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is the first monument on the National Mall and its adjoining parks to honor an African ...
Posted Monday, January 7th 2013 at 3:36PM
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