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This holiday season, you can keep your dollars in the community and find the perfect gifts for everyone. In Swahili the term for cooperative economics—to build and maintain black institutions—is “Ujamaa.” In an age when many black-owned businesses have been forced to shutter, there isn’t a better

The Margaret Walker Center and the Jackson Hinds Library System will announce year-long plans to celebrate the 2015 Margaret Walker Centennial at a press conference and reception at 5 p.m. Friday, Dec

Showing up to class is great, but there's so much more you can do. By Sarah Haberman, Monster Contributing Writer For recent graduates, job-seeking can be difficult to navigate. The GPAs are high

Stay encouraged to become all you were destined to be. What better way to honor yourself than to make your goals, dreams, and lifes purpose come true. Someone admires you. Someone values you.

If you didn't hear it on the news, you probably noticed it the last time you filled up your car: gasoline prices have been dropping lately after holding fairly steady for a year or so, following world

This is Miles College's edition of Pharrell's "Happy"! The happiest students, faculty and staff took a break and joined us as we spread happiness to our campus. Thank you to each and everyone who participated in the Golden Bear Spirit. Apply to Miles College 5500 Myron Massey Blvd. Birmingham (

These historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) were compared only with one another for these rankings. In order to be on the list, a school must be currently designated by the U.S. Department of Education as an HBCU.

It's been a year. What will happen next year? Yes I can hear. A smile from the heart is near. Nothing can compare to the real. End

How old were you when you were granted with the gift of mind reading? How old were you when you accomplished your first goal? How old were you when you realized your worth? How young were you whe

She is the wind beneath our wings. She is the lady with the prettiest smile. She is the cure to any cold. To live is to be loved by a Grandmother. Can't you taste her soul food? She is the tree

I know you are having a harmonious day. Yep. That's just how we do around here. Let the happiness ring from ear to ear. Cancel the negatives with holiday cheer! A new season is here. Enter it wit

I love you for everything you are. I love you for everything you are becoming. I believe in the best in you. I bring out the best in you. I am love. I love you. You are loved.

WAKE UP MISSION CONTINUES… Greetings Family, aside of racial injustice, what does Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin and Gena 6 all have in common? None of these became national attention to the level t

JERSEY CITY, N. J. – Thanksgiving, for some people, is being with family and eating way too much food. For the 2014-15 Tennessee State University men’s basketball team it has been spending time with t

The transition “from boots to books” is getting a little easier for military veterans at N.C. A&T. On Thursday, November 13, the university opened the Aggie Student VETS Center at The Oaks, the former

“In the face of adversity, you must have faith and commitment to succeed,” said Dr. Gary Gibbons, director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to a group of 12 students from Tougaloo Coll

This Thanksgiving season, Cheyney University (CU) students are putting others before themselves by reaching out to help those in need. Fashion Merchandising and Management (FMM) students, under the direction of FMM Program Coordinator Dr. Vanessa Brantley, are giving the gift of sight by collectin

Students at historically Black colleges and universities are uniting in protest of the grand jury’s decision Monday night to not indict Darren Wilson. A few hundred students went to a vigil held at

If you know what will make you happy this holiday...pursue it. If you know what will turn your day upside down...do not entertain it. Consume healthy uplifting food, conversation, and media. Sh

On her show, "Iyanla: Fix My Life," spiritual life coach Iyanla Vanzant has traveled all over the country helping people sort through their personal challenges. But now it's time for Iyanla to get her

Alcorn State University’s new tuition plan is geared toward attracting more out-of-state students to its campus in Lorman, Mississippi. The Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher learnin

Taylor Turntime, a Bennett College freshman whose photograph and story appeared in the New York Times Sunday, Nov. 23 edition, is the kind of student Bennett College will provide support services to u

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Diversity trainer points to path for growth for all humanity Lauren Joichin Nile dreams of a world in which humanity replaces racism with love for one another. Her book RACE: My Story & Humanity’s Bottom Line addresses her personal experiences with racism, the biological oneness of humanity, t

With a 69-7 home win against Delaware State on the last regular game of the season — and a season-ending loss by North Carolina A&T — the Morgan Bears became Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Champions for the first time since 1979. Five teams share the MEAC title with 6-2 records, but only Mor