By Donnell Suggs
As the buzzer sounded Darrell Walker casually made his way over to the scorer’s table at L.S. Epps Gymnasium and took the microphone. The first-year men’s head basketball coach at Clark Atlanta University had just engineered his Panthers to a 71-66 victory over AUC rival Moreh ...
Posted Wednesday, February 22nd 2017 at 10:55AM
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Flax seeds have been consumed as food for around 6,000 years and may have very well been the worlds first cultivated superfood!
Flax seed benefits could help you improve digestion, give you clear skin, lower cholesterol, reduce sugar cravings, bal ...
Posted Wednesday, February 22nd 2017 at 10:19AM
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CLIVE DAVIS: THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES WILL OPEN TRIBECA 2017 AT RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL
Via TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL
The film screening will be followed by special concert featuring performances by Aretha Franklin, Jennifer Hudson, Earth, Wind & F ...
Posted Wednesday, February 22nd 2017 at 4:48AM
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The University of the Virgin Islands is celebrating the University’s Emerald Anniversary with a revolutionary philanthropic initiative. “55 for 55: The Great Alumni Challenge!” encourages UVI alumni to make history by achieving a 55 percent alumni gi ...
Posted Tuesday, February 21st 2017 at 11:36AM
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The Southern men’s basketball team wasn’t in trouble until it was.
The Jaguars almost blew an 18-point lead late in the second half, needing a late technical foul call on the Alabama State coach to stave off a last-minute comeback bid by the Horne ...
Posted Tuesday, February 21st 2017 at 10:24AM
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BY MIKE GEGENHEIMER
That the Southern women's basketball team wasn’t down by 30 to Alabama State at halftime was nothing short of a miracle to coach Sandy Pugh. In fact, it was part of her locker room speech.
The Jaguars inexplicably clung to ...
Posted Tuesday, February 21st 2017 at 10:21AM
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Kevin Williams, Jr. has been playing steel pan for a long time although the youngster is still in 9th grade. His talent sees him serenading incoming tourists at the territory’s various ports; he has traveled to Denmark to perform; Mr. Williams is a sought-after performer at many events year-round, a ...
Posted Tuesday, February 21st 2017 at 10:06AM
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By Jeremy Jones @GAFollowers
Congratulations to Savannah State University’s cheerleading team for making history by becoming the very first HBCU to win CheerSport Nationals.
CheerSport is the nation’s largest cheerleading competition held at th ...
Posted Tuesday, February 21st 2017 at 10:01AM
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LifeCycle Program Announced
On February 9, former First Lady Michelle Obama's organization "Partnership for a Healthier America" selected Oakwood University as the site for its first-ever convening of HBCUs on the topic of campus health.
Partn ...
Posted Tuesday, February 21st 2017 at 9:47AM
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On February 6, 2017, I had an important conversation with our UNCF Senior Vice-President for Public Policy & Government Affairs, Mrs. Cheryl Smith, regarding the President's planned agenda for Higher Education. On February 3, President Donald Trump's Department of Education representatives extended ...
Posted Tuesday, February 21st 2017 at 9:45AM
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By Keith Miles
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., the first Black intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity, has selected several Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) graduates to serve in leadership positions at the national level.
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Posted Monday, February 20th 2017 at 1:30PM
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Written by Anthony D. Owens
Howard University today announced that John F.W. Rogers, Executive Vice President and Secretary to the Board of Directors of Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and a member of the firm’s Management Committee, has been app ...
Posted Monday, February 20th 2017 at 1:25PM
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Tache Johnson, a junior at Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, is just back from California where she spent a week learning all about Apple, one of the top technology companies in the world. Come May, Apple will pay her to intern for 12 weeks this su ...
Posted Monday, February 20th 2017 at 1:14PM
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WHO: The Dayton Contemporary Dance Company
WHAT: Dayton Contemporary Dance Company (DCDC), an ensemble of artists who use the body as a way to understand ourselves in the world, will perform as part of Cheyney University’s Arts & Lectures series ...
Posted Monday, February 20th 2017 at 1:11PM
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LOS ANGELES, CA – Award-winning singer-songwriter Cynthia Erivo is set to perform at the Governors Ball, the Academy’s official post-Oscars® celebration, on Sunday, February 26. She will entertain the Ball’s 1,500 guests, which will include Oscar® wi ...
Posted Thursday, February 16th 2017 at 1:29PM
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C-SPAN’s award-winning, 45-foot customized bus, a mobile, interactive learning center, visited Cheyney University February 13, as part of C-SPAN’s 2017 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) tour. Cheyney, the nation's 1st HBCU, was the ...
Posted Thursday, February 16th 2017 at 1:09PM
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On Sunday, February 19, at 6:00 p.m., in the University Church, the United Student Movement will host the "It's A Different World: College Forum."
The program will feature two of the cast members of the popular television sitcom "A Different Worl ...
Posted Thursday, February 16th 2017 at 9:10AM
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Be sure to log on for A Conversation with the President of Oakwood University on Tuesday, February 21, at 6:30 p.m. CST.
Dr. Leslie Pollard and moderator Kenn Dixon will be talking about what's going on at Oakwood this semester, including some exc ...
Posted Thursday, February 16th 2017 at 9:07AM
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According to a new report from Brown University, Spelman College and Clark Atlanta University have the highest economic mobility rates among Atlanta-area colleges.
The study examined students who came from families in the bottom 20 percent of inco ...
Posted Wednesday, February 15th 2017 at 1:13PM
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Welcome to our Virtual HBCU College Fair. Through this platform our goal is to provide visitors with the necessary resources to support your college search much like if you were at the fair itself.
This page is designed to provide with you ...
Posted Wednesday, February 15th 2017 at 12:58PM
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Clark Atlanta University (CAU) President Ronald A. Johnson and CAU Police Chief Joe Little today announced the appointment of the CAU Police Department’s new deputy chief, Randell C. Robinson, a decorated Atlanta Police Department (APD) veteran who b ...
Posted Wednesday, February 15th 2017 at 12:18PM
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By Eric Stirgus - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Two Georgia schools are scheduled to announce Wednesday a wide-ranging parternship they hope could become a national model.
Clark Atlanta University and Georgia Piedmont Technical College have ...
Posted Wednesday, February 15th 2017 at 12:02PM
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Steffon Johnson ’15, is making his mark on the world through his writing. He recently published a story about how his time at a Prairie View A&M University summer program changed his life. The story was featured on CampusLately.com, a collegiate mark ...
Posted Wednesday, February 15th 2017 at 11:53AM
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It has been said that there is no substitute for first-hand experience and the student-cadets from Alabama State University’s Air Force ROTC Detachment 019 now have plenty of it under their collective belts. They have completed a recent visit to both ...
Posted Tuesday, February 14th 2017 at 6:12PM
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