Speaker Rubio doesn't get it.
His ideas on health care could jeopardize Medicare and veterans' care, programs which cover more than 5 million Floridians. Marco Rubio thinks that government shouldn't be in the health care business at all. That mean ...
Posted Sunday, March 21st 2010 at 9:56AM
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Today, The Black Scholars Index features S. Craig Watkins. He has been researching and writing about young people's media behaviors for more than ten years. He teaches in the departments of Radio-Television-Film and Sociology and the Center for Afri ...
Posted Friday, March 19th 2010 at 12:45PM
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It's been a while since BSI featured an amazing resource so today, we focus on the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture & History. It is located in Atlanta, GA and is the first library of its kind in the southeast offering spec ...
Posted Thursday, March 18th 2010 at 12:46PM
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Today, The Black Scholars Index celebrates Dr. Sonja Ebron, a social entrepreneur and CEO of blackEnergy. See a clip of what blackEnergy is all about and learn more about Dr. Ebron.
http://www.blackscholarsindex.com/2010/03/dr-sonja-ebron-social- ...
Posted Wednesday, March 17th 2010 at 2:10PM
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DAYTON, Ohio - Allen Smith scored 14 points and Tyree Glass added 10 as the Southwestern Athletic Conference Champion University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff defeated Winthrop 61-44 in the 2010 NCAA Tournament Opening Round Game. The Golden Lions advance t ...
Posted Wednesday, March 17th 2010 at 1:49PM
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Wal-Mart probing racist store announcement: "All black people leave the store now," public-address system said Sunday.
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, New Jersey - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. officials are reviewing security tapes to try to determine who used a sou ...
Posted Wednesday, March 17th 2010 at 1:42PM
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U.S. Senate candidate Kendrick Meek released the following statement on U.S.-Israel diplomacy and the peace process:
"What started off as an internal, domestic disagreement within the Israeli government has turned into an unnecessary international ...
Posted Wednesday, March 17th 2010 at 11:18AM
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The leading Democratic candidate for Florida's open U.S. Senate seat, Kendrick Meek, says he is on track to meet his goal of collecting 130,000 signatures by March 29, making him the first statewide candidate to qualify for the Florida ballot by peti ...
Posted Tuesday, March 16th 2010 at 3:54PM
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Today, The Black Scholars Index highlights Ernest McNealey, the 5th President of Stillman College.
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Posted Tuesday, March 16th 2010 at 12:53PM
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Today, The Black Scholars Index celebrates the life of Jaunita W. Goggins. She also became the first African-American woman to serve on the United States Civil Rights Commission. To add to her list of firsts, she was also the first Afri ...
Posted Monday, March 15th 2010 at 1:37PM
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Today, The Black Scholars Index celebrates Ida Gray Nelson/Rollins. She was the first African-American to graduate with a degree in dentistry and the first African-American woman to practice dentistry in Chicago, always mentoring other African-Ameri ...
Posted Friday, March 12th 2010 at 4:38PM
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Today, The Black Scholars Index celebrates James McCune Smith, the 1st African-American to earn a Medical Degree and run a Pharmacy in the US. http://www.blackscholarsindex.com/2010/03/james-mccune-smith-first-african-american-to-earn-a-medical-degr ...
Posted Thursday, March 11th 2010 at 3:13PM
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Today, The Black Scholars Index features Shirley Clarke Franklin. She is the 58th mayor of Atlanta and the first female to hold the post and became the first black woman to be elected mayor of any major Southern city. She joined Spelman College as ...
Posted Wednesday, March 10th 2010 at 8:47PM
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Today, The Black Scholars Index features Dr. Hazo W. Carter, Jr. He is the 9th President of West Virginia State College and became it's first President when it became West Virginia State University. He has years of service to this ...
Posted Tuesday, March 9th 2010 at 3:10PM
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Today, The Black Scholars Index celebrates Dr. Wendy Carter. She has earned 5 degrees and is a true testament that mountains can be moved. Check out the story of how she beat seemingly insurmountable odds and watch a few clips. Today, we celebrate ...
Posted Monday, March 8th 2010 at 3:23PM
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Today, The Black Scholars Index celebrates Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander. She was one the first African American women to receive a Ph.D. in the United States, the first woman to receive a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, ...
Posted Friday, March 5th 2010 at 12:02PM
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U.S. President Barack Obama is holding a competition for high school students to have a chance for him the speak at your High School graduation!
The White House and the Department of Education have announced the Race to the Top High School Commen ...
Posted Wednesday, March 3rd 2010 at 2:23PM
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Today, The Black Scholars Index celebrates Dr. Geogiana Simpson, 1 of the first 3 African-American women to obtain PhDs in the United States. She was a polished woman who became close friends with Frederick Douglass' 2nd wife. Please read her story, ...
Posted Wednesday, March 3rd 2010 at 12:38PM
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Today, The Black Scholars Index features Michael J. Sorrell, 34th President of Paul Quinn College. Under his leadership, the school has embarked upon an aggressive agenda that stresses academic excellence, accountability and a comm ...
Posted Tuesday, March 2nd 2010 at 8:53AM
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Today, The Black Scholars Index celebrates Dr. Philip Emeagwali. He has been called the "Bill Gates of Africa" and the "unsung hero of the internet" after using 65,000 processors to invent the world's fastest computer, which performs computations at ...
Posted Friday, February 26th 2010 at 1:52PM
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As first reported, Zeta Tau Alpha, a predominantly white sorority, won first place in the nationsl Sprite Step Off competition. It was later discovered that there had been a scoring discrepency which led to an unresolved issue. In order to correct th ...
Posted Friday, February 26th 2010 at 1:28PM
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If you haven’t heard by now, the sisters of Zeta Tau Alpha are the baddest steppers in the land this year.
ZTA, a White sorority, pulled off a major at the Sprite Step-Off Challenge over the weekend. The newcomers beat out Black greeks from Alpha Kappa Alpha, Alpha Phi Alpha, Delta S ...
Posted Thursday, February 25th 2010 at 2:38PM
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Today, The Black Scholars Index features William R. Moss. In 1999, Will Moss founded HBCUconnect.com - one of the first social network for African Americans. To date, it’s the largest online destination for Black college students and alumni with a r ...
Posted Thursday, February 25th 2010 at 12:55PM
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Today, The Black Scholars Index features Dr. George C. Bradley, who in 2007 became the 14th President of Paine College in Augusta, Ga. Prior to being named president by the Paine College Board of Trustees, Dr. Bradley served as exec ...
Posted Tuesday, February 23rd 2010 at 10:02PM
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American universities are accepting more minorities than ever. Graduating them is another matter.
Barry Mills, the president of Bowdoin College, was justifiably proud of Bowdoin's efforts to recruit minority students. Since 2003 the small, elite l ...
Posted Tuesday, February 23rd 2010 at 1:17PM
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