by Steven Gaither
These days, more than ever, college athletics is a big business. And, as with any big business, marketing is key. Of course, marketing costs money.
That’s where many HBCUs fall behind, especially at the Division II level.
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Posted Friday, January 27th 2017 at 10:23AM
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Florida A&M University (FAMU) released their 2017 Football Schedule Wednesday, a lineup of games which features a season-opening home game for the first time since 2010.
The Rattlers, will open their third season under head coach Alex Wood on Satu ...
Posted Friday, January 27th 2017 at 10:17AM
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Tennessee State University released its 2017 football schedule on Wednesday. The Tigers’ slate is highlighted with a game at FBS Georgia State and matchups with two longtime HBCU rivals.
TSU will travel to Atlanta to face Sun Belt member Georgia S ...
Posted Friday, January 27th 2017 at 10:06AM
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Jackson State University’s Margaret Walker Center has received a $300,000 grant from the NoVo Foundation to work with young women of color throughout the South in conjunction with the Lighthouse project and its creator Natalie Collier.
Founded by a gift from businessman Warren Buffett, the NoVo F ...
Posted Thursday, January 26th 2017 at 2:15PM
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I’ll be Live on Facebook with Warren Buffett this Friday at 3 pm EST talking about how investing in innovation can have a remarkable impact on the world.
What questions do you have for us?
https://www.facebook.com/BillGates/photos/a.10150331291841961.334784.216311481960/10154245074391961/?thea ...
Posted Thursday, January 26th 2017 at 12:59PM
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How safe are the bridges in Metro Nashville that you drive across everyday?
The answer may be in the work Tennessee State University engineering students are doing around the city.
As part of the fairgrounds improvement project, the students’ f ...
Posted Thursday, January 26th 2017 at 10:16AM
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MEN : How to maintain a WOMAN on every level Farrakhan Speaks on relationships
The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan speaks and the lecture is entitled " Love And Duty " with a beat in the background
YOU CAN PURCHASE THE LECTURE HERE
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Posted Wednesday, January 25th 2017 at 11:49AM
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A consortium led by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University has been awarded a $1.4 million grant, renewable for up to five years and $7.8 million, by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s University Transportation Centers (UTC) ...
Posted Wednesday, January 25th 2017 at 11:38AM
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Junior guard Tiwian Kendley scored a game-high 29 points and junior guard Isiah Graves tallied 11 points off the bench in leading Morgan State to a 77-75 victory over host South Carolina State Monday night to remain in first place in Mid-Eastern Athl ...
Posted Wednesday, January 25th 2017 at 11:34AM
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If a movie executive was meeting with Maurice Mander, the interview should not convene until there was a full understanding of the complexity and ingenuity of Mander's action-packed, urban thriller, “Surian Seed: Rise of The Rudan.” While it is only a comic book, it has all the initial key ingredie ...
Posted Tuesday, January 24th 2017 at 2:08PM
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The 89th Oscars® nominations were announced this morning and "Moonlight" received the following eight (8) nods:
* Best Supporting Actor - Mahershala Ali
* Cinematography - James Laxton
* Best Original Score - Nicholas Britell
* Best Ada ...
Posted Tuesday, January 24th 2017 at 12:26PM
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The milk you drink
did it make you so
sweet?
The hands you hold
was it them that
created your mold?
There aren't many
like you. Precious
and rare, someone
truly took good care.
Set the pace. About
face. Run your race.
I wish ...
Posted Tuesday, January 24th 2017 at 8:53AM
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Rerr
Nominations for the 89th Academy Awards
Performance by an actor in a leading role
Casey Affleck in "Manchester by the Sea" Andrew Garfield in "Hacksaw Ridge"
Ryan Gosling in "La La Land"
Viggo Mortensen in ...
Posted Tuesday, January 24th 2017 at 4:48AM
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(CHICAGO, IL) - January 17, 2017 - Central City Productions announced today the nominees in 26 categories for the 2017 Stellar Awards. Hailed as an "epic night in gospel music," this year's Stellar Awards will return tothe Las Vegas Orleans Arena on ...
Posted Monday, January 23rd 2017 at 8:15PM
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A bit of Broadway that is set for a king - a Lion King - is coming as a featured attraction for Alabama State University's Feb. 3, Founders' Day Convocation; as the University is featuring as its keynote speaker, ASU alumna and acclaimed actor, Bonit ...
Posted Monday, January 23rd 2017 at 6:51PM
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Alabama State University now houses and edits one of the nation's most acclaimed scholarly journals of the African experience, the International Journal of Africana Studies. And, ASU's own Dr. Bertis English, professor in the Department of History an ...
Posted Thursday, January 19th 2017 at 4:34PM
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Alcorn State University President Alfred Rankins Jr. will embark on his inaugural Presidential Bus Tour, a focused effort to meet with statewide high school and junior college students, counselors and school leadership, to discuss the advantages of a ...
Posted Thursday, January 19th 2017 at 4:29PM
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LOS ANGELES (Jan. 19, 2016) — Casey Affleck, Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, Lucas Hedges, Taraji P. Henson, Brie Larson, Janelle Monáe, Viggo Mortensen and Octavia Spencer will be presenters at the 23rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®, Executive P ...
Posted Thursday, January 19th 2017 at 1:29PM
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Michael Baisden hires veteran radio and television personality Lorenzo “Ice Tea” Thomas.
Thomas, was recognized as Urban Network Magazine’s Radio Air Personality of the Year and Radio Facts Magazine’s Jock of the Millennium, As the Michael Bai ...
Posted Wednesday, January 18th 2017 at 3:27PM
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Beginning fall 2017, the Graduate College at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University will offer a Professional Science Master’s (PSM) program in Industrial Biosciences. The nationally certified graduate degree concentration will pr ...
Posted Wednesday, January 18th 2017 at 2:08PM
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NEW ORLEANS, LA (WVUE) -
The massive Women’s March on Washington will include locals who said they want the new president to know they are ready to fight to protect the rights of women and all Americans.
"Together we are strong and we have a voic ...
Posted Wednesday, January 18th 2017 at 1:06PM
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Contact: Mario Boone
404-880-8558
404-987-0949 (cell)
mboone@cau.edu
ATLANTA (Jan. 18, 2016) For decades black men have been subjected to unfair and untrue stereotypes. Now, an historic election during the 2016-2017 academic year, which pro ...
Posted Wednesday, January 18th 2017 at 1:04PM
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WILBERFORCE — Central State University President Dr. Cynthia Jackson-Hammond has joined the exclusive ranks of the nation’s top Businesswomen to Watch, selected by Bizwomen, a publication of the American City Business Journals.
Bizwomen’s “Top 100 ...
Posted Wednesday, January 18th 2017 at 1:02PM
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