On this National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (Monday, Feb. 7), we are reminded that African Americans, more than any other race or ethnicity, face the most severe rates of HIV in the United States. Blacks make up just 14 percent of the U.S. populat ...
Posted Friday, February 4th 2011 at 2:07PM
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National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD) is Monday, February 7. Stillman College has joined "HBCU Get Communities Tested," an initiative, aimed at engaging students and supporters of historically black colleges and universities to inform and in ...
Posted Friday, February 4th 2011 at 1:26PM
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Harris-Stowe State University and the Anheuser-Busch School of Business proudly announces its free tax preparation service and low-income tax clinic, from February 3-April 16, 2011.
Free tax services are extended to any and everyone interested in ...
Posted Thursday, February 3rd 2011 at 4:18PM
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Exchanging ideas and aspirations is always a good idea. Committed to this belief, Florida Memorial University has agreed to host the Black Executive Exchange Program (BEEP). The prestigious event, which takes place February 9 - 10, 2011, is sponsored ...
Posted Wednesday, February 2nd 2011 at 7:04PM
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Rust College President Dr. David L. Beckley graciously accepted a check for $6,300 on February 1, 2011 from Rev. Clarence Smith on behalf of the Tupelo/Lee County United Negro College Fund Committee.
“We appreciate the Tupelo/Lee County UNCF conti ...
Posted Wednesday, February 2nd 2011 at 3:03PM
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Rust College President Dr. David L. Beckley welcomes the Rust banner currently displayed by Steve Lewis, owner of Lewis Trucking, LLC.
“We appreciate Lewis Trucking for promoting Rust College throughout the country,” said Dr. Beckley. "Because of ...
Posted Wednesday, February 2nd 2011 at 3:00PM
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Rust College Vice President Dr. Ishmell H. Edwards graciously accepted a check for $3,500 on January 31, 2011 from Mrs. Eloise McClinton, executive director, Institute for Community Services, Incorporated, in support of the Rust College / Marshall Co ...
Posted Tuesday, February 1st 2011 at 4:46PM
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Stillman held it's annual United Negro College Fund (UNCF) Super Viewing Party Saturday, January 29 at the McDonald Hughes Center in Tuscaloosa. This year, UNCF paid tribute to music icon, Chaka Khan. The event garnered just over $9,500 in donations ...
Posted Tuesday, February 1st 2011 at 4:38PM
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Keyser Wilson's painting "Remnants" has been selected for display in a national juried exhibition, entitled EPHEMERA, at Olive DeLuce Art Gallery at Northwest Missouri State University, in Maryville, Mo., from February 14 until March 18, 2011.
Wil ...
Posted Monday, January 31st 2011 at 2:39PM
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Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church is celebrating their 130th anniversary this year in a unique way. Lifelong member Yvonne Wells conceived an idea to combine an assortment of quilts, made by several church members, together to come up with an even l ...
Posted Monday, January 31st 2011 at 2:23PM
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Distinguished alumna and notable businesswoman Deborah Scott Thomas will deliver the keynote address at Alabama State University’s 111th Founder’s Day Convocation on Friday, Feb. 4, at 10 a.m. in the ASU’s Oliver-Dunn Acadome.
This year’s theme i ...
Posted Friday, January 28th 2011 at 12:54PM
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Dr. Sylvester Oliver, chair, Division of Humanities, Rust College, will give a lecture on Wednesday, January 26, 2011 in the Heard Auditorium, McCarty-Varnell BCS Center at 7:00 p.m.
The presentation entitled, “The Chickasaw Indians, Enslaved Afri ...
Posted Tuesday, January 25th 2011 at 7:42PM
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Florida Memorial University is really steppin’ it up for its 2011 Homecoming Greek Step Show and Concert. This year, Gyptian, Jagged Edge and Slim from 112 will perform during the University’s annual event scheduled for Friday, February 11, 2011 at 7 ...
Posted Tuesday, January 25th 2011 at 2:14PM
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The Harris-Stowe State University Board of Regents has a new chairperson, Thelma V. Cook, known as a community volunteer and business leader. The board also has a new vice chairman, Charles H. Hoessle, retired, former director of the Saint Louis Zool ...
Posted Tuesday, January 25th 2011 at 1:29PM
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Rust College is pleased to announce that Bishop Warner H. Brown, Jr. has agreed to be its special stage guest during its 145 Commencement.
"I am honored by your invitation and look forward to being with you", said Bishop Brown, California-Nevada ...
Posted Friday, January 21st 2011 at 2:13PM
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JACKSON, Miss. -- Alcorn State has hired Melvin Spears as its football coach.
The 50-year-old Spears was the offensive coordinator at Alabama State last season. He replaces Earnest Collins, who left after two seasons to become the coach at Norther ...
Posted Wednesday, January 19th 2011 at 6:25PM
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The Princeton Review recently published its annual 373 Best Colleges guide. Among the 373 colleges chosen as America’s best are six historically black colleges and universities.
They are Fisk University, Hampton University, Howard University, Spelman College, Tuskegee University, and Xavier Univ ...
Posted Thursday, January 13th 2011 at 3:38PM
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The Washington Post's Dana Priest and William Arkin issued a report entitled "Monitoring America," which analyzes the exponential growth of Homeland Security in this country. The report looks at how Homeland Security is affecting localities throughou ...
Posted Wednesday, January 5th 2011 at 3:04PM
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Rust College and Hendrix College’s men battled through 11 lead changes and seven ties in a nip and tuck contest in Conway, AR. on Tuesday afternoon. Junior Marcus Erves scored 16 points and denied three shots, while junior Jahrell Holmes grabbed a t ...
Posted Wednesday, January 5th 2011 at 2:05PM
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By Alex Tausig
If you're an entrepreneur, you're probably going to screw up at some point. That's ok. Entrepreneurship is a constant process of quickly testing hypotheses, failing, refining and testing again. If you're not failing, you're not learning, right?
Well, not all fails are created eq ...
Posted Tuesday, January 4th 2011 at 7:47PM
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According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics there are an expected 2.7 million new jobs to be added in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields by 2018 but yet
The Council of State Governments reports that only 13 states in the U.S. including New York, Delaware and New Je ...
Posted Tuesday, January 4th 2011 at 3:14PM
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Looks like Hampton University should be the cream of the crop when it comes to basketball hoops at the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) this season, but according to the 2011 Pomeroy College Basketball Ratings, that isn't saying m ...
Posted Friday, December 31st 2010 at 5:21PM
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Published by Herbert L. White
Johnson C. Smith University is no longer a gated community.
In 2010, the 143-year-old school launched a series of initiatives that transformed JCSU into a major force in northwest Charlotte’s academic, business and ...
Posted Friday, December 31st 2010 at 2:12PM
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Judge Greg Mathis to Keynote 25th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. State Celebration Kick-off Program at Harris-Stowe.
Judge Greg Mathis, nationally recognized as an advocate for justice and as an award-winning television court judge, will serve ...
Posted Tuesday, December 21st 2010 at 7:18PM
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By Khalea Underwood - Howard University
Courtesy of CollegeCandy.com
While every college girl shares many of the same college experiences (Procrastinating, Blue Book exams ), she also carves her own path and has her own unique adventure. Have you ...
Posted Tuesday, December 21st 2010 at 3:28PM
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