Could this be a cure for cancer?
by Robin White Goode
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Last month, Xavier University of Louisiana, a historically black college that sends more black students to medical school than any other college, announced exciting news: A study conducted in Xavier’s Ire ...
Posted Monday, April 24th 2017 at 11:24AM
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TATUM, Texas – After leading the Wiley College men's and women's track and field teams to another Red River Athletic Conference Championship, Marlon Baugh was awarded men's and women's RRAC Coach of the Year for the second consecutive season.
Baugh had 10 return from the Wildcats' third-place NAI ...
Posted Monday, April 24th 2017 at 11:15AM
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Juan Scott (Central State) was named the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) Male Track Athlete of the Week along with teammate Darin Gooch who was tabbed the Male Field Athlete of the Week, announced on Friday by the league office.
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Posted Monday, April 24th 2017 at 11:08AM
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Join us for CAU NOW-Lifting Every Voice, Saturday morning at 7am on WCLK as we highlight the Fifth Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium, a collaboration between the Clark Atlanta University Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice and the James Weldo ...
Posted Monday, April 24th 2017 at 10:58AM
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Dr. Matthew Leder, a Gadsden State Community College music instructor, will participate in a national residential workshop in New Orleans this summer.
The workshop, “New Orleans: Music, Culture and Civil Rights,” is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. It will take place J ...
Posted Monday, April 24th 2017 at 10:50AM
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By Katherine Skiba•Contact Reporter
Chicago Tribune
Former President Barack Obama returns to the public stage Monday morning in a homecoming to the University of Chicago, an event that stands to serve as a warmup for a higher profile in ...
Posted Monday, April 24th 2017 at 10:06AM
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Iyanla Vanzant, prolific and commanding author, soulful priestess, television personality and healer of people, will be the keynote speaker at the University of the Virgin Islands 2017 commencement ceremonies. These ceremonies will take place on May ...
Posted Monday, April 24th 2017 at 9:51AM
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Oh my gosh...exhale.
Treat the love of your life to a pamper party!
Detox the stress life throws our way and get
in shape to sway!
From your toes to your fros...
Relax, relate, release-let it go!
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Posted Saturday, April 22nd 2017 at 11:07AM
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Katie Reilly
Apr 19, 2017
Bill Gates said he hopes President Donald Trump will be "pragmatic" and will rethink his proposed cuts to health spending and foreign aid.
"I’ve talked to him about HIV and how the U.S. shou ...
Posted Thursday, April 20th 2017 at 2:47PM
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Savannah State University (SSU) President Cheryl D. Dozier today announced the intent to classify all athletics programs from NCAA Division I to NCAA Division II, pending approval by the NCAA. The announcement also signals the end of SSU’s membersh ...
Posted Tuesday, April 18th 2017 at 2:13PM
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Leona Dunn is finally enjoying college life and stressing less about school fees. She is grateful.
“My first year in college I paid over $1,200 out of pocket from what I saved up over the summer to help me stay in college,” said Dunn, a junior com ...
Posted Tuesday, April 18th 2017 at 2:09PM
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Ceremony Will Highlight MSU’s 150th Year
Morgan State University President David Wilson today announced that Joseph R. Biden Jr., U.S. vice president for two terms in the Obama administration, will deliver the keynote address during the University’s 141st Spring Commencement exercises, on Saturda ...
Posted Tuesday, April 18th 2017 at 2:06PM
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Under a new director, the Theatre Arts Program at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University will present “In the Red and Brown Water,” April 20 – 23 and April 27-30.
“In the Red and Brown Water” was written by Tarell Alvin McCraney, who most recently won an Academy Award for Best ...
Posted Tuesday, April 18th 2017 at 12:48PM
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By Dave Nagle
ESPN President John Skipper will give the commencement address at Tuskegee University on May 13.
Skipper was invited to address the class of 2017 by Tuskegee President Brian Johnson, who said, “Tuskegee University is thrilled to have John serve as our commencement speaker ...
Posted Tuesday, April 18th 2017 at 12:40PM
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Add a little bit of Peppermint Oil to your body
if you need a burst of energy to get started!
You Inspire Me! ...
Posted Tuesday, March 21st 2017 at 6:31PM
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In February, Morgan State University launched a new, innovative program aimed at providing undergraduate and graduate students at Morgan with technology-assisted, hands-on learning opportunities. Supported financially and technically by Verizon, the ...
Posted Monday, March 20th 2017 at 5:09PM
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At this year’s annual South by Southwest® (SXSW) Conference and Festivals held in Austin, Texas, among the scores of creative people exchanging ideas and engaging in ways to change the world, scholars representing a group of Historically Black Colleg ...
Posted Monday, March 20th 2017 at 5:03PM
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By Maureen Downey
Alvin J. Schexnider is a former chancellor of Winston-Salem State University. He is a senior fellow at the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges and author of “Saving Black Colleges.”
By Alvin J. Sc ...
Posted Monday, March 20th 2017 at 2:34PM
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Grambling State’s run in the Women’s National Invitation Tournament was ended by Tulane, as the Lady Tigers fell 66-49 in the second round.
GSU (19-15) was done in during the second quarter, when — after entering the frame down 23-15 — the Green W ...
Posted Monday, March 20th 2017 at 2:09PM
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by Kyle Massey
Laurence Alexander never saw Kellyanne Conway kneeling on the Oval Office couch.
The image came to him later, as it did for everybody else, through the media. While the Arkansas educator was actually across the room in Febr ...
Posted Monday, March 20th 2017 at 1:44PM
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Morehouse College was recently ranked near the top third of private colleges at which students earn the most scholarship dollars, according to an analysis by Peterson’s Financial Aid Data for 2015.
The list of 250 schools was developed by determi ...
Posted Monday, March 20th 2017 at 1:41PM
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Patients who require the benefits of aspirin without the accompanying stomach irritation are a step closer to comfort and cures with the signing of an exclusive licensing agreement. Dr. Shengmin Sang, a food scientist with North Carolina Agricultural ...
Posted Monday, March 20th 2017 at 1:39PM
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Virginia Union University's Ray Anderson has been chosen to play in the 2017 Reese's NABC Division II College All-Star Game, the NABC announced on Monday, March 20.
Anderson, who was named the CIAA Player of the Year in February, led the CIAA i ...
Posted Monday, March 20th 2017 at 1:33PM
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