Alabama State University's campus National Public Radio station, WVAS-FM, recently received two "Best in Broadcasting Awards" (ABBYs) from the Alabama Broadcasters Association.
The awards were presented during the 10th annual “Best in Broadcasti ...
Posted Tuesday, March 27th 2018 at 3:02PM
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In June I will have been blogging for 8 years, which is a pretty decent run for an original content blog that aims to put out useful, high quality material 48 weeks a year. One of the key success factors in blogging is trust. If you publish roughly t ...
Posted Monday, March 26th 2018 at 12:05PM
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Team NBK present the History of Drum Magazine.
Drum was started in 1951, as African Drum by former test cricketer and author Bob Crisp and Jim Bailey an ex-R.A.F. pilot, son of South African financier Sir Abe Bailey.
Initially under Crisp's editorship, the magazine had a paternalistic, tribal ...
Posted Sunday, March 25th 2018 at 9:49AM
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Willie and George Muse were black albino brothers born in Roanoke, VA in 1893. In 1899 they were kidnapped by sideshow agents and told there mother had died and they would never see her again. They were showcased as White Ecuadorian cannibals, Eko and Iko. In the mid 1920s the brothers toured with R ...
Posted Saturday, March 24th 2018 at 11:20PM
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Posted Saturday, March 24th 2018 at 11:15PM
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“Stagecoach” Mary Fields (c. 1832-1914) was born a slave in Tennessee and following the Civil War, she moved to the pioneer community of Cascade, Montana. In 1895, when she was around 60 years old, Fields became the second woman and first African ...
Posted Saturday, March 24th 2018 at 3:34PM
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Millie and Christine McCoy (1851-1912) were conjoined twins born into slavery. They and their mother were sold to a showman, Joseph Smith. Smith and his wife educated the girls; they eventually could speak five languages, dance, play music, and sing. ...
Posted Saturday, March 24th 2018 at 3:29PM
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Gangster Music and Gangsta Rap are said to have their birth in the 1980s. The truth is..... none of that is true.
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Posted Saturday, March 24th 2018 at 11:55AM
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U.S. Senators Doug Jones (D-Ala.) and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) today announced that Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) will receive a 14-percent increase in federal funding in the Senate’s omnibus spending bill, from $244.7 mi ...
Posted Friday, March 23rd 2018 at 1:44PM
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Samuel "Sam" Sharpe
The leader of a Maafa (slavery) rebellion in Jamaica in 1831 which became known as the Christmas Rebellion. The uprising lasted 10 days and spread throughout the entire island, mobilizing as many as 60,000 of Jamaica's 300,000 ...
Posted Friday, March 23rd 2018 at 9:10AM
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Grambling State University held its annual football Pro Day at Eddie G. Robinson Memorial Stadium on Thursday morning in front of scouts representing 21 teams from the National Football League.
"I thought it was a good day," Grambling State hea ...
Posted Friday, March 23rd 2018 at 9:04AM
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Katherine Johnson
The NASA Mathematician Who Advanced Human Rights with a Slide Rule and Pencil NASA chief Charles Bolden recalls the historic trajectory of the “human computer” who played a key role in the Apollo 11 moon landing, and as a fem ...
Posted Friday, March 23rd 2018 at 9:00AM
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BY Chris Hilburn-Trenkle
When Ingrid Wicker McCree was 19 years old and a sophomore at George Washington University, she decided she needed a job.
She took a job at the Charles E. Smith Center on campus, where she was an equipment manager an ...
Posted Friday, March 23rd 2018 at 8:58AM
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Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones, known as Sissieretta Jones, (b.1868 – d.1933) was an American soprano. She sometimes was called "The Black Patti" in reference to Italian opera singer Adelina Patti. Jones' repertoire included grand opera, light op ...
Posted Friday, March 23rd 2018 at 8:55AM
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Nationwide has partnered with HBCU CONNECT for almost a decade to bring savings to the HBCU community. This crucial partnership helps HBCU CONNECT provide scholarship opportunities to deserving students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities ...
Posted Friday, March 23rd 2018 at 8:54AM
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Posted Thursday, March 22nd 2018 at 6:47PM
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Tennessee State University President Glenda Glover and Joni McReynolds, president of the TSU National Alumni Association, joined Ag Dean Chandra Reddy at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday to open six new Ag laboratories.
TSU President Glenda ...
Posted Thursday, March 22nd 2018 at 3:27PM
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By Abigail Walker
Christopher Lockhart, owner of Capital City Kayaks, says he has always enjoyed being out on the water. The 27-year-old Jackson native grew up kayaking during the summer and continued the hobby into adulthood. He started buying bo ...
Posted Thursday, March 22nd 2018 at 3:13PM
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Today, Congresswoman Alma Adams (NC-12), co-chair of the Bipartisan Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Caucus, released the following statement on the inclusion of HBCU Priorities in the 2018 Omnibus:
“Following the first ever H ...
Posted Thursday, March 22nd 2018 at 2:46PM
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A team of scholars are coming in to correct the lies being told about our black history
2018 2019 paradigm shift...real scholarship on the rise ! ...
Posted Thursday, March 22nd 2018 at 1:58PM
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The Magnificent Walls of Benin
"The Walls of Benin were a combination of ramparts and moats, called Iya in the local language[which?], used as a defense of the defunct Kingdom of Benin, which is present-day Benin City, the capital of present-day Edo, Nigeria. It was considered the largest man-mad ...
Posted Thursday, March 22nd 2018 at 10:37AM
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Morgan State University’s restoration and 2016 reopening of the Lillie Carroll Jackson Civil Rights Museum (LCJM) has received a Maryland Preservation Award, the state’s highest recognition for historical preservation,heritage education ...
Posted Thursday, March 22nd 2018 at 10:05AM
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Ferris Coin Co. Offering $2,000 in Prizes, Commemorating 100th Anniversary of WWI Act of Valor
One of the nation's oldest rare coin shops is seeking artists from across the nation to design a silver coin-shaped medallion honoring African American ...
Posted Thursday, March 22nd 2018 at 9:37AM
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Saint Augustine’s University released its 2018 football schedule Wednesday, highlighted by games against archrival Shaw University, defending CIAA champion Virginia State University and Division I North Carolina Central University.
The 10-game s ...
Posted Thursday, March 22nd 2018 at 9:08AM
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