Photo: Jaffus Hardrick is the interim president of Florida Memorial University, the only historically black university in South Florida. He was a top administrator at the public Florida International University for a decade before taking on the ne ...
Posted Tuesday, March 5th 2019 at 10:15AM
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I'm Back on stage! Thank you for having me Charlotte. Here are a few highlights for my performance at the Toyota Fan Fest and Cricket Wireless meet and greet! ...
Posted Monday, March 4th 2019 at 4:05PM
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Senior guard Antrice McCoy saw time winding down on the shot clock, drove the lane and, as she was fouled, threw up a prayer.
And, someone answered it.
After converting the old-fashioned three-point play, Lane College women’s basketball team ha ...
Posted Monday, March 4th 2019 at 3:58PM
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After years of disappointing starts, finishes, and a bunch of other things in between, the Miles men’s basketball program finally gets to stamp a phrase into its history.
SIAC Champions.
The Golden Bears completed a stunning one-year turnaround ...
Posted Monday, March 4th 2019 at 3:56PM
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Virginia State University held off a strong second-half rally to defeat the Shaw Bears, 77-66, in the 2019 Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) Men’s Basketball Championship game Saturday afternoon at the Spectrum Center.
The Bears ...
Posted Monday, March 4th 2019 at 3:53PM
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Dillard held off a feisty Edward Waters squad in the final seconds to win 64-62 Sunday afternoon in the final of the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Championship at the Adams-Jenkins Community Sports & Music Complex.
In a rematch of last year’s cha ...
Posted Monday, March 4th 2019 at 3:51PM
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Shareka McNeill broke the CIAA Tournament scoring record with a 37-point effort as Virginia Union University won its second consecutive CIAA Women’s Basketball Championship with a 75-41 win over Fayetteville State Saturday afternoon at the Spectrum ...
Posted Monday, March 4th 2019 at 3:48PM
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The Quest for Something Clean(er)
If you're looking to motivate without being hated, the trick is to be friendly about it. Post a flyer on your dorm message board asking your floor mates to meet for a talk about the bathroom. If you can add "Free ...
Posted Monday, March 4th 2019 at 3:41PM
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We're so excited to welcome you to
Volunteers of America's Founder's Week!
Now is the time to honor the history of Volunteers of America, celebrating people like you who have made it possible to heal Americans in crisis for over 123 years.
J ...
Posted Monday, March 4th 2019 at 3:03PM
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Retool Your School began with the simple mission: give back to HBCUs by facilitating updates to campuses. Now celebrating its 10th year, the projects funded by the program’s grants instill pride among current students, faculty, alumni, community supp ...
Posted Monday, March 4th 2019 at 12:07PM
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What does it mean to be 10 years strong? Since 2009, The Home Depot’s Retool Your School Campus Improvement Grant Program has invested more than $2 million dollars to update, upgrade, and uplift HBCU campuses. Ten years later, the Program is deepenin ...
Posted Monday, March 4th 2019 at 11:54AM
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A cluster of storms ripped through the Southeast on Sunday, leaving a trail of destruction that stretched into Florida and Georgia.
All of the reported deaths in Alabama were in Lee County, on the border with Georgia, where two tornadoes touched dow ...
Posted Monday, March 4th 2019 at 9:33AM
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Spend some quality time with your
loved one. You can also learn a thing
or two by watching an interesting
movie. We recommend the Block
Buster: “APOCALYPTO”
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Apocalypto-Rudy-Youngblood/dp/B00FXOQJZS ...
Posted Sunday, March 3rd 2019 at 11:31PM
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I didn't really understand the different types of Anxiety
until I started swimming with the Big Fishes, in the Big
Boys and Girl Corporate Pool.
Feeling the pressure of my own life occurrences compacted
by being sensitive to what others were pr ...
Posted Sunday, March 3rd 2019 at 12:34PM
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Alcorn State University continues to garner accolades for being one of the nation’s standout institutions of higher learning.
The University is ranked No. 7 on Value Colleges’ Top 25 Lowest Out-of-State Tuition Colleges for 2019 list. Alcorn is on ...
Posted Friday, March 1st 2019 at 3:30PM
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As Spring Break approaches, the planning process is a constant for places to go, things to do,
and memories to be made!
We are inspired by The Fresh Prince - Will Smith and his partner for life, Jada Pinkett-Smith!
Seeing the adventures they are ...
Posted Friday, March 1st 2019 at 1:21PM
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By Day One Staff
on February 11, 2019
Ever wonder how Amazon gets your packages to you so quickly?
Find out in this behind-the-scenes video tour.
If you are in the United States or Canada, you can tour an Amazon fulfillment center at 23 lo ...
Posted Thursday, February 28th 2019 at 9:33PM
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When you were young, did you know how to study for a test or make plans for college? Do you remember wanting your first car or looking for a part-time job?
Simple things that may seem easy or straightforward to you now may be a complete mystery to ...
Posted Thursday, February 28th 2019 at 9:16PM
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By John X. Miller
@xman1955
February 28, 2019
The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) men’s and women’s basketball tournaments are nearing the end of their 13-year run in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The tournaments will be h ...
Posted Thursday, February 28th 2019 at 9:01PM
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The excellency our Honorable Morehouse Alum, Spike Lee shares
through art is impressionable and admired by us all.
His taste displayed in the messages he tells through cinema is
classic and timeless.
When we see him on the big screen he plays his character so
naturally. The casts he and hi ...
Posted Thursday, February 28th 2019 at 5:55PM
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HBCU Editors -
Photo: Morehouse College business majors recently swept a marketing and sales competition sponsored by Quicken Loans.
Students from Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, Spelman College, and Tuskegee University were ...
Posted Thursday, February 28th 2019 at 5:37PM
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Mary Peake
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King Jr.
Mary Jackson
William Howard Taft
Barack H. Obama
Jerome Holland
George H.W. Bush
Samuel Chapman Armstrong
William R. Harvey
Eleven exquisitely sculpted figures of m ...
Posted Thursday, February 28th 2019 at 4:44PM
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Do you know when and where the first HBCU was established? Black colleges have played an important role in the education, empowerment, and success of African-American students, from the missionaries that taught runaway slaves to the trade schools that were founded in the early 20th century. Some HBC ...
Posted Thursday, February 28th 2019 at 3:59PM
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