The HRC Foundation this weekend welcomed student activists from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) for a three-day leadership summit designed to foster campus environments that are welcoming and affirming to LGBTQ people.
“We w ...
Posted Friday, November 16th 2018 at 7:51AM
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Today, FloSports, the innovator in live digital sports and original content, announced a partnership with Cutting Edge Sports Management Group (CESM) to provide live and on-demand coverage of their premier college footbal ...
Posted Friday, November 16th 2018 at 7:48AM
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An Alabama State University staff director served as a panelist at the Alabama Association of Higher Education Diversity Officers Conference recently at The University of South Alabama in Mobile. ASU's Dr. Linwood Whitten, director of Diversity and I ...
Posted Thursday, November 15th 2018 at 3:34PM
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Famous civil rights attorney Fred Gray (ASU 1951),who represented Rosa Parks, Dr. King and won many famous civil rights cases, will speak at ASU's National Center's event commemorating the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The Montgomery Bus Boycott and Rosa P ...
Posted Thursday, November 15th 2018 at 3:01PM
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berimbau
A musical instrument, consisting of a gourd (as resonator) and a single wire stretched along a pole, used in Brazil.
The Brazilian martial art capoeira combines dance, music, high kicks and leg sweeps and is performed in a circle ...
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Stay in the race.
It is okay to take a break
but stay in the race.
Sometimes we feel help
less and unequipped, even
incompetent or unprepared,
but that does not excuse us
from the race.
Someone will hold your hand.
Pay it forward!
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Posted Wednesday, November 14th 2018 at 8:42PM
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Michelle Obama launched her ‘Becoming’ Arena book tour with her special guest Oprah Winfrey before a crowd of 14,000 at the United Center in Chicago on Tuesday.
Oprah introduced her bestie who walked out onstage wearing a sheer white blouse over tulle white tailored pants. The former first la ...
Posted Wednesday, November 14th 2018 at 7:25PM
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If you want a fun way to stay in shape while learning
the dances within the Latin culture check out this
bargain:
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Posted Wednesday, November 14th 2018 at 5:46PM
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Initially, the 77th McDonald’s Magic City Classic may have been all out the rivalry between two football teams and two world-class marching bands, but it was also a victory for Alabama State University (ASU) student Brea Williams. McDonald’s pres ...
Posted Wednesday, November 14th 2018 at 3:52PM
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Thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), a greater number of heart patients will benefit from cutting-edge bypass graft research for vascular tissue regeneration that's being conducted at Alabama State University.
Universities ...
Posted Wednesday, November 14th 2018 at 3:45PM
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The 77th McDonald’s Magic City Classic may have been an all-out rivalry between two Alabama football teams and two world-class marching bands, but it was also a victory for Alabama State University (ASU) junior Brea Williams. McDonald’s presented ...
Posted Wednesday, November 14th 2018 at 3:37PM
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If you are looking for something to do during this holiday stretch, then here is an opportunity if you reside in the Augusta, GA area. The Boggs Research Library & Cultural Center is in desparate need for educators for their Creative Writing Workshop ...
Posted Wednesday, November 14th 2018 at 2:47PM
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By 2022, the sports analytics market is expected to skyrocket to $4 billion. Yet even as top international players are duking it out for industry supremacy, an assistant professor of computer science at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, N.C. ...
Posted Wednesday, November 14th 2018 at 2:24PM
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Johnson C. Smith University has joined the National League of Cities, Schmidt Futures, and 50 leading cities from across the country to take action to support Charlotte’s innovation economy.
The accepted cities and organizations are part of a ne ...
Posted Wednesday, November 14th 2018 at 2:15PM
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Johnson C. Smith University is hosting the 5th Annual Carolinas Alliance for Success in Education (C.A.S.E.) Summit Nov. 15-17, 2018. The summit brings faculty and administrators from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in North and ...
Posted Wednesday, November 14th 2018 at 2:09PM
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Join Alabama State University's Small Business Development Center's (SBDC) experts at Hyundai this Thursday (Nov. 15), for an awesome small business story that is all about making business connections and networking between the River Region's small b ...
Posted Tuesday, November 13th 2018 at 4:27PM
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Johnson C. Smith University invites all families in the Charlotte community to “An Evening with Mrs. Claus & Santa,” a free holiday party taking place Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018, in Biddle Memorial Hall. The event will include live Christmas music, r ...
Posted Tuesday, November 13th 2018 at 3:58PM
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LOPnewsmag IS ON BEREAVEMENT LEAVE THROUGH NOVEMBER 19, 2018.
LOPnewsmag will return Monday, November 19, 2018 and will be published Bi-Weekly indefinitely.
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Posted Tuesday, November 13th 2018 at 1:47PM
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Wordnik Word of the Day for November 13, 2018
alestake
A stake having a garland or bush of twigs at the top of it, set up as a sign before an ale-house.
I am swinking from dawn to night, while you are guzzling in an alestake.
Sir Nige ...
Posted Tuesday, November 13th 2018 at 12:22PM
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African American Patients Only Have a 23 percent Chance of Finding a Life-Saving Blood Stem Cell Donor Compared to 77percent for White Patients
Be The Match On Campus college chapters formed to help more African Americans find a cure for life-threatening blood cancers and blood disorders
Prair ...
Posted Monday, November 12th 2018 at 5:51PM
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Good Morning!
When I share information it is because it has been tried
and tested or I want to spare you the lesson.
When I went to NCCU in Durham, NC I was odd because
I was out of state. Most weekends and holidays I was on
campus while everyone else drove an hour or two to their
home pla ...
Posted Monday, November 12th 2018 at 7:39AM
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On October 27th, 2018 as part of its 3rd Annual Black Nurses Rock Convention, the “Shades of Blue” National Awards and Scholarship Banquet was held in San Antonio, TX, giving recognition to those individuals who demonstrated outstanding service ...
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