Benjamin L. Hooks, who as executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for 16 years championed minorities in an increasingly conservative political era, died at his home in Memphis. ...
Posted Thursday, April 15th 2010 at 1:05PM
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The plan also includes $255-million a year to help historically black colleges, as outlined in the House bill.
President Obama signed into law some legislation to overhaul the student-loan system, promising annual inflation-adjusted increases in the maximum Pell Grant and more ...
Posted Thursday, March 25th 2010 at 1:10PM
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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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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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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. 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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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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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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-- Also Secures Advertising Deals With Tide and U.S. Census Bureau --
Columbus, OH - Lee Moss Media, an award-winning African American marketing, public relations, and diversity recruiting firm, has hit the ground running in 2010. The 10-year old ...
Posted Monday, February 22nd 2010 at 1:23PM
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by Jim Brogan - the Post Chronicle
Meet 13-year-old, Stephen Stafford II. Stephen Stafford is in his second year at Morehouse College
and is a sensation.
The 13-year-old is a triple-major child prodigy (biology, computer science and mathematic ...
Posted Monday, January 25th 2010 at 1:50PM
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Check out the member discount on a very nice commemorative Obama figurine. HBCU Connect members get 10% off. Take advantage before offer expires. ...
Posted Friday, January 22nd 2010 at 5:46PM
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As the economic downturn grows longer and more severe, it’s hard to find any proposals to cut costs that can be taken completely off the table. Programs that were recently considered untouchable have now been placed under the budgetary microscope.
In a couple of states — Mississippi and Geor ...
Posted Tuesday, January 19th 2010 at 4:29PM
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Alumni, students, and advocates for historically black colleges and universities marched to the state Capitol from the Mississippi State Fairgrounds today to recognize the birthday of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and to protest Gov. Haley Barbour's r ...
Posted Tuesday, January 19th 2010 at 4:18PM
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The Barber-Scotia College is launching an aggressive individual giving campaign. Your donation along with what we hope will be many other individual donations will go to supplement the Barber-Scotia College Annual Fund. Portions will also go to suppo ...
Posted Friday, January 8th 2010 at 2:47PM
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