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Today, The Black Scholars Index features Shirley Clarke Franklin. She is the 58th mayor of Atlanta and the first female to hold the post and became the first black woman to be elected mayor of any ma

Today, The Black Scholars Index features Dr. Hazo W. Carter, Jr. He is the 9th President of West Virginia State College and became it's first President when it became West Virginia

Today, The Black Scholars Index celebrates Dr. Wendy Carter. She has earned 5 degrees and is a true testament that mountains can be moved. Check out the story of how she beat seemingly insurmountabl

Today, The Black Scholars Index celebrates Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander. She was one the first African American women to receive a Ph.D. in the United States, the first woman to receive a law degre

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 hav

Today, The Black Scholars Index celebrates Dr. Geogiana Simpson, 1 of the first 3 African-American women to obtain PhDs in the United States. She was a polished woman who became close friends with Fre

Today, The Black Scholars Index features Michael J. Sorrell, 34th President of Paul Quinn College. Under his leadership, the school has embarked upon an aggressive agenda that stres

Today, The Black Scholars Index celebrates Dr. Philip Emeagwali. He has been called the "Bill Gates of Africa" and the "unsung hero of the internet" after using 65,000 processors to invent the world'

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

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

Today, The Black Scholars Index features William R. Moss. In 1999, Will Moss founded HBCUconnect.com - one of the first social network for African Americans. To date, it’s the largest online destinat

Today, The Black Scholars Index features Dr. George C. Bradley, who in 2007 became the 14th President of Paine College in Augusta, Ga. Prior to being named president by the Paine Col

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 recrui

Today, The Black Scholars Index features Dr. Joy Degruy. She is a nationally and internationally renowned researcher, educator, author and presenter. Dr. Joy, as most know her, is a tell-it-like-it-is

-- 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, h

Today, The Black Scholars Index reminds you of Malcolm X on this day (the day of his assassination) - not to celebrate his death, but to provide awareness of his life and the some of the issues surrou

Today, The Black Scholars Index mourns the death of the three professors in the University of Alabama Shooting last week. Two of the three professors were African American - Dr. Maria Ragland Davis &

Today, The Black Scholars Index features Dr. Frances Cress. She is the author of The Isis Papers and creator of the Cress-Welsing theory analyzing the nature of white supremacy. She is a psychiatrist

There will not be a BSI feature today. We will continue tomorrow. Thanks. -BSI Staff http://www.blackscholarsindex.com

Today, The Black Scholars Index features Ivan Gladstone Van Sertima (26 January 1935 - 25 May 2009). He was a historian, linguist and anthropologist at Rutgers University in the United States. He was

Heard of Mancala? Mancala is a family of board games played around the world, sometimes called “sowing” games, or “count-and-capture” games, which describes the game-play. Mancala games play a role

Today, The Black Scholars Index successfully completed a server upgrade. Due to a huge increase in viewers, we reached the capacity of our initial hosting plan and had to upgrade to another web serve

Today, The Black Scholars Index features Dr. Keith L. Black. He serves as Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery and Director of the Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical C

Today, The Black Scholars Index features Dr. Billy C. Hawkins, 20th President of Talladega College. He has dedicated 32 years as an educator, has authored 2 books, and has served wi

Today, The Black Scholars Index features Dr. Alondra Oubre. She is a medical anthropologist and the author of Instinct and Revelation, as well as published articles such as " The Adaptionist Yardstic