Years ago when defensive coordinator at the University of Memphis, Jay Hopson came calling on the offensive coordinator at Mt. Olive High School, Fred McNair, for recruits, neither had an inkling of their future destiny at Alcorn.
Hopson, when hir ...
Posted Tuesday, August 26th 2014 at 3:22PM
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The Bennett College Board of Trustees is hosting a Naming Ceremony for the Pfeiffer Heating Plant that houses the Journalism and Media Studies Program. The Julianne Malveaux Journalism and Media Studies Building will be unveiled following the College ...
Posted Friday, August 22nd 2014 at 7:19PM
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This Summer, Grambling State University senior De’Shon Swafford accepted an invitation from NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama to participate in the Robotics Academy. The academy selects high achieving students in all types of a ...
Posted Monday, August 11th 2014 at 7:00PM
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Dr. Loretta Walton-Jaggers, a seasoned educator at Grambling State University was recently named Louisiana Reading Association’s Educator of the Year. Dr. Jaggers is a professor of Education Curriculum and Instruction and is the founder and coordinat ...
Posted Thursday, August 7th 2014 at 5:09PM
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Courtesy of TSPN Sports
Three HBCU products — Michael Strahan (Texas Southern), Claude Humphrey (Tennessee State) and Aeneas Williams (Southern) — were officially enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Saturday night.
Their paths to the NFL ...
Posted Tuesday, August 5th 2014 at 2:43PM
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During the Grand TimkenSteel Parade, a tradition for the Pro Football Hall of Fame weekend, there were huge inflatable balloons, classic cars, walking units, football legends and bands as far as the eyes could see – then almost an hour into the popul ...
Posted Tuesday, August 5th 2014 at 2:25PM
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Coming this fall to Comcast SportsNet - "Inside VSU Football" featuring Virginia State University Coach Latrell Scott ...
Posted Monday, July 28th 2014 at 3:30PM
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Last night Cheyney University of Pennsylvania alum and media correspondent Tanisha LaVerne Grant was on the red carpet to cover the THIRD INSTALLMENT of Sean Combs REVOLT TV's community initiative, "HELLO HARLEM" -a summer series to benefit the BOYS ...
Posted Thursday, July 24th 2014 at 6:23PM
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About 50 area middle-school students are using the summer break to sharpen their math and science skills during the ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp at Bowie State University. The two-week, all-expenses-paid program, founded by astronaut ...
Posted Thursday, July 24th 2014 at 6:19PM
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by Timothy McDonald, Ed.D., provost and senior vice president
To "Start Strong and Finish Strong" is the challenge that will be issued to faculty and staff during the school's annual Colloquium scheduled for August 4-7, under the theme, "Sustainin ...
Posted Thursday, July 24th 2014 at 5:47PM
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The National Trust for Historic Preservation is pleased to announce that Marita Rivero has been named chairman-elect to the National Trust’s Board of Trustees. Marita will assume the chairman’s role in October 2014.
Marita is currently of counsel ...
Posted Thursday, July 24th 2014 at 3:25PM
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The improvement of Alcorn State continues with the future addition of a new facility on the main campus.
Alcorn's School of Agriculture, Research, Extension, and Applied Sciences (AREAS) began the construction of its product development center, wh ...
Posted Thursday, July 17th 2014 at 2:03PM
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When Sophomore Rodrick Patterson Jr. applied for a scholarship for young farmers during this past spring semester, he knew that he was headed in the right direction.
“I applied for this particular scholarship because I come from an agricultural fa ...
Posted Wednesday, July 16th 2014 at 1:34PM
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In a move that many educators, prognosticators and medical practitioners saw coming for years, Georgia native Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice becomes the first woman president of Morehouse School of Medicine.
The Macon, Ga. native succeeds outgoing pr ...
Posted Wednesday, July 9th 2014 at 2:02PM
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MEDIA ADVISORY
July 3, 2014
GRAMBLING STATE INTERIM PRESIDENT HOLDS NEWS CONFERENCE
WHO: Grambling State University Interim President Cynthia Warrick
WHAT: Media availability and news conference
WHEN: 2:30 p.m. THURSDAY, July 10
WHERE ...
Posted Friday, July 4th 2014 at 3:43PM
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Erik Johnson is a rising senior and an Army ROTC cadet heading to Germany for a special experience.
Of thousands of cadets across the nation, Johnson is the only cadet from Louisiana, the only cadet from Grambling State University and the only one ...
Posted Tuesday, July 1st 2014 at 5:44PM
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Tanisha LaVerne Grant media correspondent and Cheyney University alum interviews legendary director Spike Lee about his kickstarter film the "Da Sweet Blood of Jesus" which was the closing film for the 18th annual American Black Film Festival held in ...
Posted Monday, June 30th 2014 at 5:28PM
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A Texas Southern University team of researchers consisting of Dr. Xin Wei, Dr. Yuanjian Deng, Dr. Renard L. Thomas, and Dr. Bobby Wilson recently received a patent entitled “Instantaneous Electro Deposition of Metal Nanostructures on Carbon Nanotubes ...
Posted Monday, June 30th 2014 at 3:43PM
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by George Johnson Jr., director of integrated marketing and public relations
Twenty-one representatives from Oakwood University consisting of students, and staff, and a few non-Oakwood volunteers, arrived in Kenya on June 11 for the 2014 4HIM Over ...
Posted Friday, June 27th 2014 at 6:47PM
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BY Deon Jones/GSU Media Bureau
Abdulalim A. Shabazz, a distinguished professor at Grambling State University with a national reputation, has died. He had been hospitalized at Northern Louisiana Medical Center less than two weeks ago.
“I’ve know ...
Posted Thursday, June 26th 2014 at 6:33PM
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Alcorn President Alfred Rankins Jr. announced today the appointment of LLJuna Weir, associate director of athletics/senior women administrator, as the interim director of intercollegiate athletics, effective July 1.
Rankins describes Weir as a lea ...
Posted Thursday, June 26th 2014 at 6:28PM
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Grambling State President Frank G. Pogue says there are no talks about changing the Southern University and Grambling State University matchup
The Bayou Classic will be played between Grambling State University and Southern University this fall -- ...
Posted Friday, June 20th 2014 at 7:37PM
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Media correspondent and Cheyney University of Pennsylvania alum Tanisha LaVerne Grant was on the red carpet last night for one of New York City's most anticipated events ... the inaugural of the American Black Film Festival also known as ABFF. What a ...
Posted Friday, June 20th 2014 at 5:34PM
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Posted Thursday, June 19th 2014 at 7:22PM
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25 to Life, a debut feature-length documentary by award-winning director and Spike Lee protégé Mike L. Brown, will have its world premiere as part of the American Black Film Festival (ABFF) in New York at SVA Theatre (333 W. 23rd Street) on Sunday, J ...
Posted Monday, June 16th 2014 at 7:23PM
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