One of Baltimore's favorite basketball sons is coming home and he's going to coach an HBCU. Juan Dixon, a Maryland legend and former NBA player, has been hired to take over as the coach at Coppin State, according to the Baltimore Sun.
The 38-year-old just finished his first season as a head coac ...
Posted Monday, April 24th 2017 at 12:00PM
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The Lady Tigers of Texas Southern University maintained their hold on first place in the Southwestern Athletic Conference's West Division after splitting Saturday's doubleheader with Prairie View A&M.
The Lady Tigers rolled to a 7-3 win in Satu ...
Posted Monday, April 24th 2017 at 11:58AM
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The Gold Team came out victorious by a score of 20-10 on Saturday, April 22, in the 2017 edition of the Bethune-Cookman Football Maroon and Gold Spring Showcase housed at Municipal Stadium.
Redshirt junior quarterback Larry Brihm Jr. threw for ...
Posted Monday, April 24th 2017 at 11:55AM
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The Paine College Board of Trustees unanimously selected Dr. Jerry L. Hardee as the finalist to become the next president of Paine.
Dr. Hardee, retired college president and educator, was one of two finalists under consideration. At the conclusio ...
Posted Monday, April 24th 2017 at 11:47AM
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The Virginia Union University men's track and field team took second place at the 2017 CIAA Outdoor Track and Field Conference Championship, held on April 21-22 at Bowie State University in Bowie, Md.
Saint. Augustine won the CIAA Championship fo ...
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The Virginia Union University men's track and field team was honored at the 2017 CIAA Track and Field Championship Banquet, held at Bowie State University on Thursday, April 20, in Bowie, Md., for earning the highest cumulative team GPA for the 2017 ...
Posted Monday, April 24th 2017 at 11:42AM
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By Alabama A&M Sports Information
Brandon Marsonek sets the Alabama A&M record for strikeouts in a season with 91.
Sidney R. Jackson
ITTA BENA, Mississippi -- Brandon Marsonek set an Alabama A&M pitching record Friday but the Bulldogs l ...
Posted Monday, April 24th 2017 at 11:39AM
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The Saint Augustine’s University men won its 20th consecutive title and the Winston-Salem State University women edged Johnson C. Smith University by one point in the 2017 CIAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships on the Bowie State University campus Saturday.
Full Results
The Falcons, led b ...
Posted Monday, April 24th 2017 at 11:35AM
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Miles College, along with the City of Birmingham, was selected as the host of two future NCAA Division II Women’s Basketball Elite 8, which is the championship round in Division II. In an announcement made by the NCAA, the 2020 and 2022 versions of t ...
Posted Monday, April 24th 2017 at 11:30AM
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Men's Outdoor Track & Field
Results
TATUM, Texas – The Wiley College men's track field team exerted its dominance over the Red River Athletic Conference with its fourth consecutive title Saturday at Tatum Eagle Stadium.
The Wildcats scored 2 ...
Posted Monday, April 24th 2017 at 11:27AM
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Could this be a cure for cancer?
by Robin White Goode
(Image: iStock/Cecilie_Arcurs)
Last month, Xavier University of Louisiana, a historically black college that sends more black students to medical school than any other college, announced exciting news: A study conducted in Xavier’s Ire ...
Posted Monday, April 24th 2017 at 11:24AM
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TATUM, Texas – After leading the Wiley College men's and women's track and field teams to another Red River Athletic Conference Championship, Marlon Baugh was awarded men's and women's RRAC Coach of the Year for the second consecutive season.
Baugh had 10 return from the Wildcats' third-place NAI ...
Posted Monday, April 24th 2017 at 11:15AM
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Juan Scott (Central State) was named the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) Male Track Athlete of the Week along with teammate Darin Gooch who was tabbed the Male Field Athlete of the Week, announced on Friday by the league office.
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Posted Monday, April 24th 2017 at 11:08AM
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Join us for CAU NOW-Lifting Every Voice, Saturday morning at 7am on WCLK as we highlight the Fifth Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium, a collaboration between the Clark Atlanta University Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice and the James Weldo ...
Posted Monday, April 24th 2017 at 10:58AM
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Dr. Matthew Leder, a Gadsden State Community College music instructor, will participate in a national residential workshop in New Orleans this summer.
The workshop, “New Orleans: Music, Culture and Civil Rights,” is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. It will take place J ...
Posted Monday, April 24th 2017 at 10:50AM
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By Katherine Skiba•Contact Reporter
Chicago Tribune
Former President Barack Obama returns to the public stage Monday morning in a homecoming to the University of Chicago, an event that stands to serve as a warmup for a higher profile in ...
Posted Monday, April 24th 2017 at 10:06AM
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Iyanla Vanzant, prolific and commanding author, soulful priestess, television personality and healer of people, will be the keynote speaker at the University of the Virgin Islands 2017 commencement ceremonies. These ceremonies will take place on May ...
Posted Monday, April 24th 2017 at 9:51AM
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Posted Saturday, April 22nd 2017 at 11:07AM
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Katie Reilly
Apr 19, 2017
Bill Gates said he hopes President Donald Trump will be "pragmatic" and will rethink his proposed cuts to health spending and foreign aid.
"I’ve talked to him about HIV and how the U.S. shou ...
Posted Thursday, April 20th 2017 at 2:47PM
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Savannah State University (SSU) President Cheryl D. Dozier today announced the intent to classify all athletics programs from NCAA Division I to NCAA Division II, pending approval by the NCAA. The announcement also signals the end of SSU’s membersh ...
Posted Tuesday, April 18th 2017 at 2:13PM
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Leona Dunn is finally enjoying college life and stressing less about school fees. She is grateful.
“My first year in college I paid over $1,200 out of pocket from what I saved up over the summer to help me stay in college,” said Dunn, a junior com ...
Posted Tuesday, April 18th 2017 at 2:09PM
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Ceremony Will Highlight MSU’s 150th Year
Morgan State University President David Wilson today announced that Joseph R. Biden Jr., U.S. vice president for two terms in the Obama administration, will deliver the keynote address during the University’s 141st Spring Commencement exercises, on Saturda ...
Posted Tuesday, April 18th 2017 at 2:06PM
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Under a new director, the Theatre Arts Program at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University will present “In the Red and Brown Water,” April 20 – 23 and April 27-30.
“In the Red and Brown Water” was written by Tarell Alvin McCraney, who most recently won an Academy Award for Best ...
Posted Tuesday, April 18th 2017 at 12:48PM
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By Dave Nagle
ESPN President John Skipper will give the commencement address at Tuskegee University on May 13.
Skipper was invited to address the class of 2017 by Tuskegee President Brian Johnson, who said, “Tuskegee University is thrilled to have John serve as our commencement speaker ...
Posted Tuesday, April 18th 2017 at 12:40PM
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