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THE OBAMA FOUNDATION NEWS:
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THE BIDEN FOUNDATION NEWS:
American Promise Tour Schedule
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“Why I Teach Where I Teach: To Ins ...
Posted Friday, May 11th 2018 at 5:52PM
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Bowie State University is ready to launch a newly installed solar panel system, supporting the university’s goal to reduce its carbon footprint. President Aminta H. Breaux and officials from WGL Energy will join other dignitaries to ceremoniously fli ...
Posted Friday, May 11th 2018 at 5:01PM
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You don’t need a rich guy like me to tell you that there is something very wrong with the American economy. You feel it every day in your stagnant paychecks, your rising credit card balances, and your creeping fear that everything for which you hav ...
Posted Friday, May 11th 2018 at 11:24AM
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A short family friendly presentation on the great elder Edward Wilmot Blyden.
"Edward Wilmot Blyden (3 August 1832 – 7 February 1912), the father of pan-Africanism, was an educator, writer, diplomat, and politician primarily in Liberia. Born in th ...
Posted Friday, May 11th 2018 at 9:54AM
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Known as the Primer Libertador de America or “first liberator of the Americas,” Gaspar Yanga led one of colonial Mexico’s first successful slave uprisings and would go on to establish one of the Americas earliest free black settlements.
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Posted Friday, May 11th 2018 at 9:22AM
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According to College Consensus’ first ever ranking of Best Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), Alcorn State University is the leading HBCU in the nation in student satisfaction.
After a deeper dive into the data, it was revealed t ...
Posted Thursday, May 10th 2018 at 3:29PM
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Commencement 2018
Archbishop of Atlanta Wilton D. Gregory, the highest-ranking African American bishop in the United States, who heads one of the country’s fastest growing archdioceses, will address the graduates at Boston College’s 142n ...
Posted Thursday, May 10th 2018 at 12:11PM
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Schools should help all children–including children with mental health or other behavior support needs–become successful adults who can hold jobs, live independently, and be engaged in their communities. To accomplish this, schools must set ambitious ...
Posted Thursday, May 10th 2018 at 10:35AM
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The Defiant Ones is an entertaining documentary about Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre – but it’s also filled with smart lessons for entrepreneurs. Their life stories and escapades are fascinating, but I was especially interested in the way they overcame fai ...
Posted Wednesday, May 9th 2018 at 11:24AM
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Back in the late 1980s, researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry injected the right hind paw of a rat with Freund’s complete adjuvant, a compound that triggers inflammation, as part of a test of chronic pain treatments. One of the firs ...
Posted Wednesday, May 9th 2018 at 10:34AM
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KIPP DC Lead Academy is a non-profit, independently owned, tuition-free charter public school that is open to all students, including those with disabilities. It runs with more flexibility than traditional public schools in exchange for increased acc ...
Posted Tuesday, May 8th 2018 at 10:13PM
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Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League since 2003, will deliver the keynote address during Johnson C. Smith University’s Commencement Exercises 10 a.m. on Sunday, May 20, 2018. The ceremony will take place at Bojangles Coliseum, ...
Posted Tuesday, May 8th 2018 at 3:13PM
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The Kaabu Empire
Was a Mandinka kingdom of Senegambia centered within modern northeastern Guinea-Bissau but extending into Casamance in Senegal. It rose to prominence in the region thanks to its origins as a former province of the Mali Empire. Af ...
Posted Tuesday, May 8th 2018 at 12:39PM
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Committed to supporting the health of students, faculty and staff, Cheyney University has made a multi-year commitment to Partnership for a Healthier America’s Healthier Campus Initiative.
Today, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania has agreed to ma ...
Posted Monday, May 7th 2018 at 8:33PM
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Bro. Dark presents the Cakewalk.
"The cakewalk or cake walk was a dance developed from the "prize walks" held in the late 19th century, generally at get-togethers on black slave plantations after emancipation in the Southern United States."
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Posted Sunday, May 6th 2018 at 6:31PM
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THE OBAMA FOUNDATION NEWS: The Presidential Library Center
COLLEGE-SIGNING DAY HIGHLIGHTS
THE BIDEN FOUNDATION NEWS:
American Promise Tour Schedule
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Posted Saturday, May 5th 2018 at 4:24PM
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The cast of A Different World have come together to raise $360k in grants to award to nine HBCU’s.
Jasmine Guy, Cree Summer, Kadeem Harrison and Darryl M. Bell teamed up with The Home Depot to annou ...
Posted Friday, May 4th 2018 at 9:02PM
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Ever since Amber Hawkins started going to school, her parents have encouraged her to fulfill a dream they weren’t able to achieve: to graduate from college.
On Saturday, May 5, Hawkins will fulfill her parents’ dream. She will be among nearly 1,000 students who will receive degrees when TSU holds ...
Posted Friday, May 4th 2018 at 5:30PM
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The NCAA Division I National Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) crowned a video submitted by the North Carolina Central University SAAC as the winner of a "Break the Stigma" contest open to all DI institutions promoting mental health awareness ...
Posted Friday, May 4th 2018 at 5:11PM
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by Monica Jackson / Industry News
The Defense Department has given a team from Northrop Grumman the Nunn-Perry award for supporting QTEC Aerospace with its business operations for three years under the Missile Defense Agency’s Mentor-Protégé Progr ...
Posted Friday, May 4th 2018 at 4:43PM
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Xavier University of Louisiana remained No. 4 Tuesday in the NAIA Men's Tennis Coaches' Top 25. It's the final ranking before the national tournament.
XULA (11-11) extended its streak of consecutive top-25 appearances to 94. That's the longe ...
Posted Friday, May 4th 2018 at 4:40PM
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WHAT: Art created by ASU's students will be selected/purchased for Jackson Hospital's permanent art collection.
WHEN: Today (May 2) at 2 p.m.
WHERE: ASU's Tullibody Fine Arts Center (room 244) on the corner of S. Jackson St. & N. University Dr ...
Posted Friday, May 4th 2018 at 4:33PM
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Growing up in a family of soccer enthusiasts, Ali Salvador, a Waterloo Ontario, Canada native, was bound to fall in love with the sport. At the young age of four, the future Alcorn State University soccer team standout began her journey with the help ...
Posted Friday, May 4th 2018 at 2:35PM
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