Texas Southern University’s Heritage of Zion Singers, a group comprised primarily of the university’s opera workshop and university choir students, recently returned from an exciting series of concerts of Negro Spirituals, Black Gospel Mu ...
Posted Friday, August 28th 2015 at 5:54PM
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Jelisa Barringer is the 47th National Miss Black America Titleholder. She Joined the Ranks of Oprah Winfrey, Toni Braxton, Bernadette Stanis, Alexandra Morton and more.
Jelisa is a 25 year old native of Columbus, OH crowned Miss Black America 2015-1 ...
Posted Friday, August 28th 2015 at 5:25PM
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Coutesy of The Huffington Post
As Posted ByJarrett L. Carter, HBCUDigest.com
Hillary Clinton today became the latest democratic presidential hopeful to call for increased higher education access through loan or tuition-free governmental fun ...
Posted Friday, August 21st 2015 at 6:28PM
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By Carmen Jones
Courtesy of XOJane.com
One day I woke up, and Twitter had exploded. A young Black woman had gotten everyone into a tizzy. “A 4.0 at an HBCU is not equivalent to a 4.0 at a PWI,” she tweeted. It really got me thinking. Is ...
Posted Friday, August 21st 2015 at 6:23PM
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Allen University has opened its doors to the new Mother Mary Ann Norris Honors Program Center.
Angel Risher is the current Miss Allen University. She and the other honors students in her class will be the first to graduate in the honors program ...
Posted Friday, August 21st 2015 at 5:57PM
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Xavier University of Louisiana’s College of Pharmacy has been awarded an $8,362,190 grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Resources. Over the next three years, the grant wi ...
Posted Friday, August 21st 2015 at 5:38PM
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The Alabama State University campus is a buzz of activity with today being its first day of classes for the Fall semester, but it all began on Saturday as members of the Hornet Nation lent helping hands and ready smile ...
Posted Wednesday, August 19th 2015 at 3:16PM
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It’s the height of summer, and some would-be college students are starting to fade in the searing heat of bureaucratic blockades.
Their college plans may melt away entirely by the end of summer. Up to 40 percent of low-income students wh ...
Posted Wednesday, August 19th 2015 at 1:53PM
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Quentin Blair is wrapping up his summer job and heading to N.C. Central University for his sophomore year of college. Y Achievers, a YMCA program, helped get him through high school and into a good start at college.
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Posted Sunday, August 16th 2015 at 8:33PM
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By Barbara WatersExcerpt from Tyler Morning Telegraph
"Texas College students will have a better environment when Phase 1 campus improvements, which cost $19.3 million, are complete in November," President Dwight J. Fennell said. "Phase 1 involves ' ...
Posted Tuesday, July 28th 2015 at 6:14PM
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NBMBAA Entrepreneurial Institute®(EI), is a “must attend” day long series of business development workshops and breakthrough training sessions. The EI attracts new entrepreneurs, current business owners and small business professionals seeking the knowledge and tools of success. EI provides professional development via workshops, panels, discussions, networking opportunities and ...
Posted Monday, July 27th 2015 at 5:56PM
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Chicago, IL and Houston, TX - In its search for proven and flexible instructional programs to serve its mission of, “empowering students, parents, teachers, administrators and community leaders in an effort to develop independent learners&rdquo ...
Posted Friday, July 24th 2015 at 3:10PM
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Alcorn is one of eight Mississippi institutions to share a $2.25 million higher education grant from the Department of Education’s Student Support Services program. Alcorn will receive $329,571 to aid its Student Support Services program.Alcorn ...
Posted Thursday, July 23rd 2015 at 5:03PM
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Breaking color barriers is par for the course for African Americans. Lee Elders did exactly that 40 years ago by making history for becoming the first African American to attend the Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia in 1975. In a star studded ce ...
Posted Thursday, July 23rd 2015 at 4:58PM
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Fisk University trustees recently established a Global Studies Fund to enable Fisk students to attend The London School of Economics and Political Science. This Study Abroad project was conceived by Trustee Hassell McClellan with the support of Trust ...
Posted Wednesday, July 22nd 2015 at 6:21PM
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