Stillman held it's annual United Negro College Fund (UNCF) Super Viewing Party Saturday, January 29 at the McDonald Hughes Center in Tuscaloosa. This year, UNCF paid tribute to music icon, Chaka Khan. The event garnered just over $9,500 in donations ...
Posted Tuesday, February 1st 2011 at 4:38PM
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Keyser Wilson's painting "Remnants" has been selected for display in a national juried exhibition, entitled EPHEMERA, at Olive DeLuce Art Gallery at Northwest Missouri State University, in Maryville, Mo., from February 14 until March 18, 2011.
Wil ...
Posted Monday, January 31st 2011 at 2:39PM
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Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church is celebrating their 130th anniversary this year in a unique way. Lifelong member Yvonne Wells conceived an idea to combine an assortment of quilts, made by several church members, together to come up with an even l ...
Posted Monday, January 31st 2011 at 2:23PM
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Distinguished alumna and notable businesswoman Deborah Scott Thomas will deliver the keynote address at Alabama State University’s 111th Founder’s Day Convocation on Friday, Feb. 4, at 10 a.m. in the ASU’s Oliver-Dunn Acadome.
This year’s theme i ...
Posted Friday, January 28th 2011 at 12:54PM
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Dr. Sylvester Oliver, chair, Division of Humanities, Rust College, will give a lecture on Wednesday, January 26, 2011 in the Heard Auditorium, McCarty-Varnell BCS Center at 7:00 p.m.
The presentation entitled, “The Chickasaw Indians, Enslaved Afri ...
Posted Tuesday, January 25th 2011 at 7:42PM
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Event coverage of the largest M.L. King Parade in the country. (San Antonio,Tx.) . www.blacksinsanantonio.com ...
Posted Tuesday, January 25th 2011 at 3:29PM
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Rust College is pleased to announce that Bishop Warner H. Brown, Jr. has agreed to be its special stage guest during its 145 Commencement.
"I am honored by your invitation and look forward to being with you", said Bishop Brown, California-Nevada ...
Posted Friday, January 21st 2011 at 2:13PM
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JACKSON, Miss. -- Alcorn State has hired Melvin Spears as its football coach.
The 50-year-old Spears was the offensive coordinator at Alabama State last season. He replaces Earnest Collins, who left after two seasons to become the coach at Norther ...
Posted Wednesday, January 19th 2011 at 6:25PM
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The Princeton Review recently published its annual 373 Best Colleges guide. Among the 373 colleges chosen as America’s best are six historically black colleges and universities.
They are Fisk University, Hampton University, Howard University, Spelman College, Tuskegee University, and Xavier Univ ...
Posted Thursday, January 13th 2011 at 3:38PM
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The Washington Post's Dana Priest and William Arkin issued a report entitled "Monitoring America," which analyzes the exponential growth of Homeland Security in this country. The report looks at how Homeland Security is affecting localities throughou ...
Posted Wednesday, January 5th 2011 at 3:04PM
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By Alex Tausig
If you're an entrepreneur, you're probably going to screw up at some point. That's ok. Entrepreneurship is a constant process of quickly testing hypotheses, failing, refining and testing again. If you're not failing, you're not learning, right?
Well, not all fails are created eq ...
Posted Tuesday, January 4th 2011 at 7:47PM
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The Black Inventor Online Museum ™, is a look at the great and often unrecognized pioneers in the field of invention and innovation.
Achievements by Black inventors can be seen as far back as ancient Africa but much of society has no idea that man ...
Posted Tuesday, December 14th 2010 at 5:26PM
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200,000 Americans or more have HIV and don’t know it
The number of adults tested for HIV reached a record high in 2009, according to an analysis of national survey data released today in a CDC Vital Signs report. Last year 82.9 million adults bet ...
Posted Tuesday, November 30th 2010 at 1:48PM
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Columbia University is giving away free money to further your education! The Department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University (DBMI) is currently accepting applications for the certificate, Master of Arts, PhD, and postdoctoral degrees. You can find out more on HBCUConnect.com! ...
Posted Wednesday, November 10th 2010 at 7:56PM
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The Battle Presented by AT&T – an inside look at the HBCU (Historically Black College and University) Marching Bands from Bethune-Cookman and Florida A&M – will air five 30-minute shows during four straight weeks, every Thursday from Nov. 4 to Nov. 2 ...
Posted Thursday, November 4th 2010 at 2:46PM
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Harris-Stowe State University has been selected as a recipient of the 15th Annual Greater St. Louis Top 50 Award.
Presented by the St. Louis Regional Chamber and Growth Association (RCGA) and Rubin Brown, the prestigious Greater St. Louis Top 50 ...
Posted Monday, November 1st 2010 at 4:34PM
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The Rust College Lyceum Committee is excited to announce the start of the 2010-2011 Lyceum Series. The Lyceum Series features the best of European/African American cultural expressions in the forms of music, dance, literature, and visual arts.
The ...
Posted Tuesday, October 19th 2010 at 4:05PM
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Ralph Jones Jr., a brilliant 16-year-old who had his pick of colleges and chose Florida A&M University, chatted with The Root about why he went with a historically black school over an Ivy League, and the negative attention he's getting for his decis ...
Posted Wednesday, October 13th 2010 at 4:02PM
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During the same week of the Miami premiere of the Broadway musical "Dreamgirls," original "Dreamgirl" Sheryl Lee Ralph will receive this year's Community Leadership Award during "A Night to Remember," Florida Memorial University's Fourth Annual Presi ...
Posted Wednesday, October 13th 2010 at 2:56PM
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Sean of McGraw-Hill talks about his experience as an African American and working at McGraw-Hill. McGraw-Hill has open positions and are waiting for HBCUConnect members to submit their resumes. ...
Posted Monday, October 11th 2010 at 5:48PM
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Diedre of McGraw-Hill talks about her experience as an African American and working mother at McGraw-Hill. McGraw-Hill has open positions and are waiting for HBCUConnect members to submit their resumes. ...
Posted Monday, October 11th 2010 at 5:45PM
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Program to Provide Scholarships Totaling More Than $350,000 in Partnership with the Thurgood Marshall College Fund and the Hispanic Scholarship Fund
The National Basketball Association (NBA) and Bacardi U.S.A., Inc., today announced the launch of ...
Posted Wednesday, October 6th 2010 at 1:57PM
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If you are invited into someone's home, free to pretty much roam about and entertain yourself at your leisure ... and then turn around and insult the owner of the house ... how long do you expect to stay in the house?
I'm just saying ... ...
Posted Tuesday, October 5th 2010 at 4:16PM
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The highly-recognized applied computer science doctoral program at Bowie State University (BSU) has been awarded a $753,000 grant, by the United States Department of Education. The five-year grant, a result of the Historically Black Graduate Institut ...
Posted Monday, October 4th 2010 at 2:35PM
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Writing an opinion published in the September 28, 2010 issue of the Wall Street Journal, Jason L. Riley titled his commentary “Black Colleges Need a New Mission: Once an essential response to racism, they are now academically inferior.” To counter Mr ...
Posted Friday, October 1st 2010 at 2:31PM
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