Why are HBCUs struggling to survive and thrive today? It’s a question some really smart people within and outside the academy wrestle with perennially. There are a host of explanations, most of which inevitably tie back into arguments about historical and continued underfunding ...
Posted Friday, September 28th 2012 at 1:23PM
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NEW YORK – The NAACP Legal Defense Fund filed a complaint Thursday charging that an admissions test given to students at eight elite New York City high schools discriminates against blacks and Latinos.
The complaint filed with the U.S. Departmen ...
Posted Friday, September 28th 2012 at 1:20PM
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As top college administrators gather in Washington this week for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s 42nd annual Legislative Conference and next week’s White House Initiative on Black Colleges conference, the networking conversations abou ...
Posted Friday, September 28th 2012 at 1:18PM
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As of this week, anti-Islamic ads reading, “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad” are legally being displayed in subways across New York City.
The ads are funded by the A ...
Posted Thursday, September 27th 2012 at 3:49PM
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He may have risked his life and career fighting against segregation in the United States alongside the likes of Martin Luther King, but at 85, Harry Belafonte is still vocal about social injustice.
Speaking to an NYU journalism class last Monday — the anniversary of Occupy Wall Street — Belafonte ...
Posted Thursday, September 27th 2012 at 3:47PM
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We could turn the tables on the many problems in our nation if we placed God as a real priority in our lives. It is not a time to be a Closet Christian, a 007 Secret Agent Saint, or any other type Holy Undercover Operative. It is time for the real ch ...
Posted Thursday, September 27th 2012 at 12:36PM
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In a normal election, a stagnant economy and global unrest would be pretty tricky things for an incumbent president to campaign with, but for Barack Obama they're a walk in the park. Why? Because Mitt Romney keeps messing up all the freakin' time.
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Posted Thursday, September 27th 2012 at 12:21PM
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Eddie Murphy’s ex-wife Nicole Murphy is shunning rumors that she broke-up with her fiance, ex-NFL star Michael Strahan. The rumors began when a source revealed that Nicole and Michael were engaged in a heated argument over some steamy text messages ...
Posted Thursday, September 27th 2012 at 12:16PM
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Felix Baumgartner plans to leap from just under 23 miles above the Earth's surface on October 8th, in what will be the world's highest ever skydive. A helium balloon will carry the Austrian to an altitude of 120,000 feet. His jump will break both a 5 ...
Posted Thursday, September 27th 2012 at 3:22AM
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(September 26, 2012) -- You've heard the rumors, for they are everywhere, and although unproven, they still resonate as facts throughout much of American society. The untruth that Black men don't want to care for their children has become a staple in ...
Posted Thursday, September 27th 2012 at 3:03AM
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two people charged with trying to extort millions of dollars from Stevie Wonder pleaded no contest on Monday and were released after being sentenced to time-served in jail.
Alpha Lorenzo Walker and Tamara Diaz were sentenced t ...
Posted Thursday, September 27th 2012 at 2:05AM
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Republicans are losing ground up and down the ballot.
http://speekwhatsonyourmind.connectplatform.com/cgi-bin/blog.cgi?blog_id=238921&cid=10&edit= ...
Posted Wednesday, September 26th 2012 at 6:11PM
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The problem is not Romney but the new Republican Party. READ !
http://speekwhatsonyourmind.connectplatform.com/cgi-bin/blog.cgi?blog_id=238919&cid=10&edit= ...
Posted Wednesday, September 26th 2012 at 6:07PM
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THESE ARE SOME REAL HOT HOT CARS ......
http://speekwhatsonyourmind.connectplatform.com/cgi-bin/blog.cgi?blog_id=238917&cid=10&edit= ...
Posted Wednesday, September 26th 2012 at 6:00PM
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I LOVE MY BLACKNESS
SEE THE ALL
http://speekwhatsonyourmind.connectplatform.com/cgi-bin/blog.cgi?blog_id=238914&cid=10&edit= ...
Posted Wednesday, September 26th 2012 at 5:54PM
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - An investigator says a Georgia woman had little chance of surviving an illegal cosmetic procedure in Mississippi because so much of a silicone-like substance was injected in her buttocks that it caused blood clots.
Lee McDivi ...
Posted Tuesday, September 25th 2012 at 3:12PM
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