The number of undergraduate students majoring in computer science significantly increased for the second year in a row according to the Computing Research Association (CRA). The upward trend reverses the steep decline experienced in computer science ...
Posted Wednesday, March 24th 2010 at 1:33PM
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Today, The Black Scholars Index celebrates Augusta Baker - a storyteller, librarian, authority on children's literature and a legend. She served as a consultant to "Sesame Street" and influenced several renowned children's book authors.
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Posted Wednesday, March 24th 2010 at 1:16PM
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Dear Friend,
Just a short time ago President Obama signed into law - for the first time in our nation's history - comprehensive health care reform. As the President said, "This is what change looks like."
This historic moment is about putting p ...
Posted Wednesday, March 24th 2010 at 12:45PM
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Today, The Black Scholars Index features Dr. George T. French, Jr. He is the 13th President of Miles College.
http://www.blackscholarsindex.com/2010/03/hbcu-presidents-dr-george-t-french-miles-college/
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Posted Tuesday, March 23rd 2010 at 3:53PM
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Digital technology—cell phones, digital video, iPods, Facebook, MySpace, Second Life and more—is reshaping the way that young people live and the way they learn, and UNCF (the United Negro College Fund), the nation’s largest and most effective minori ...
Posted Monday, March 22nd 2010 at 5:13PM
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Today, The Black Scholars Index highlights Dr. Shawn Blanton. He is a Full Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and Director of the Center for Silicon System Implementation.
http://www.blackscholarsindex. ...
Posted Monday, March 22nd 2010 at 1:52PM
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Dear Friend,
I first met Kendrick Meek when he was a Florida State Trooper who drove me from the airport during my 1992 campaign, and I've been a fan ever since. He's exactly who Florida needs in the Senate to put things back on track and we have ...
Posted Monday, March 22nd 2010 at 9:05AM
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U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek is in the home stretch of what he hopes will be a history-making signature drive for a ballot spot in Florida's U.S. Senate race this summer.
"This election is going to be all about who can get their voters out," Meek said ...
Posted Sunday, March 21st 2010 at 11:08AM
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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.
http://www.blackscholarsindex.com/2010/03/hbcu-presidents-ernest-mcnealey-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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