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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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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