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Today, The Black Scholars Index celebrates Augusta Baker - a storyteller, librarian, authority on children's literature and a legend. She served as a consultant to "Sesame Street" and influenced seve

Dear Friend, Just a short time ago President Obama signed into law - for the first time in our nation's history - comprehensive health care reform. As the President said, "This is what change looks

Today, The Black Scholars Index features Dr. George T. French, Jr. He is the 13th President of Miles College. http://www.blackscholarsindex.com/2010/03/hbcu-presidents-dr-georg

Today, The Black Scholars Index highlights Dr. Shawn Blanton. He is a Full Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and Director of the Center for Silicon System

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 t

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 a

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'

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-Tel

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

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.bla

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 gover

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 c