Date: Wednesday, August 31, 2005
By: Jason "Jake" McDonald, Special to BlackAmericaWeb.com
South Carolina State vs Alabama State - MEAC-SWAC Challenge
The last time these two met the majority of the current students at either institution weren’t ...
Posted Saturday, September 3rd 2005 at 7:13PM
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Date: Wednesday, August 31, 2005
By: Michelle Singletary
WASHINGTON -- If you had just $50 to invest, would you put it toward your retirement or save it for your child's college education? I know many parents would save first for college. It's na ...
Posted Saturday, September 3rd 2005 at 6:50PM
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New Orleans descended into anarchy Thursday, as corpses lay abandoned in street medians, fights and fires broke out and storm survivors battled for seats on the buses that would carry them away from the chaos. The tired and hungry seethed, saying the ...
Posted Saturday, September 3rd 2005 at 6:45PM
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Guest Commentary: We, as Blacks, Must Help Our Southern Brothers and Sisters in Need
Date: Thursday, September 01, 2005
By: Judge Greg Mathis, Special to BlackAmericaWeb.com
It’s playing out like a Hollywood blockbuster: a major hurricane stri ...
Posted Saturday, September 3rd 2005 at 6:37PM
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A distraught mayor over his city
Long Beach, CA - BlackNews.com has partnered with WWL Radio to feature an exclusive interview from Ray Nagin, mayor of New Orleans.
Nagin, who is African-American, is furious with President Bush and with the gov ...
Posted Saturday, September 3rd 2005 at 12:18AM
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By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, BlackNews.com Columnist
Five days before Hurricane Katrina struck, 100 persons gathered at a local Catholic Church in Eastern New Orleans. They were there to talk about the city's astronomically high rate of poverty that ...
Posted Saturday, September 3rd 2005 at 12:11AM
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CAN LOOTING BE JUSTIFIED?
By Dante Lee, BlackNews.com Columnist
Many are quick to criticize the thousands of individuals who are looting in New Orleans and other areas affected by Hurricane Katrina. However, the million dollar question is: Are ...
Posted Friday, September 2nd 2005 at 11:58PM
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Bennett College Starts Diversity Officers Lecture Series
Bennett College for Women is introducing the Diversity Officers Lecture Series for the 2005–2006 academic year.
The series is a program of the Johnnetta B. Cole Global Diversity & Inclusi ...
Posted Friday, September 2nd 2005 at 1:43PM
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The BlackAmericaWeb.com Relief Fund
is providing support to families who are assisting those displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
These funds raised by the BlackAmericaWeb.com Relief Fund will go to individual
families who have opened their homes to ...
Posted Thursday, September 1st 2005 at 11:16PM
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Without a doubt all of us have heard about the devastating conditions that have come upon New Orleans, LA, Gulfport and Biloxi, MS and the state of Alabama as a result of Hurricane Katrina's wrath which was delivered upon these and other areas almost ...
Posted Thursday, September 1st 2005 at 12:45PM
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BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES SUFFER IMMENSELY FROM HURRICANE KATRINA
Many HBCU students may have to lose an entire semester or more.
Long Beach, CA (BlackNews.com) - Historically-Black colleges and universities are constantly faced with ch ...
Posted Thursday, September 1st 2005 at 11:55AM
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BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES SUFFER IMMENSELY FROM HURRICANE KATRINA
Many HBCU students may have to lose an entire semester or more.
Long Beach, CA (BlackNews.com) - Historically-Black colleges and universities are constantly faced with ch ...
Posted Thursday, September 1st 2005 at 11:50AM
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Date: Tuesday, August 30, 2005
By: Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Civil Rights and Voting Rights laws, the Freedom Riders and the Montgomery bus boycott are among the events commemorated on a set of stamps dedicated Tuesday by the U.S. Po ...
Posted Wednesday, August 31st 2005 at 6:56PM
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NAACP, Urban League Assessing How to Help Hurricane Katrina Victims
Date: Tuesday, August 30, 2005
By: Monica Lewis and Sherrel Stewart Wheeler, BlackAmericaWeb.com
While the hurricane credited with devastating much of the Gulf States has pass ...
Posted Wednesday, August 31st 2005 at 6:42PM
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Helen T. Carr Fellowship For HBCU Students
Description:
Recognizing the unique role of Historically Black Engineering Colleges (HBEC) in providing technical talent to the nation, it shall be the mission of the Historically Black Engineering Col ...
Posted Monday, August 29th 2005 at 12:01AM
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You're My friend,
through good times
and bad
my friend,
my buddy,
through happy and sad,
beside me you stand,
beside me you walk,
you're there to listen,
you're there to talk,
with happiness,
with smiles,
with pain ...
Posted Friday, August 26th 2005 at 3:19PM
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May all of you find joy in each moment.........second....... minute........... hour
Today and Always
Tressia
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Posted Friday, August 26th 2005 at 3:12PM
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2005 BET Black College Tour Schedule
September 8 - Tennessee State University - Nashville, TN
September 16 - Jackson State University - Jackson, MS
September 23 - Clark Atlanta University - Atlanta, GA
September 30 - Bethune-Cookman College - Day ...
Posted Friday, August 26th 2005 at 11:41AM
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BET KICKS OFF SENIOR YEAR WITH ONE OF THE HOTTEST TOURS TO EVER HIT BLACK COLLEGE CAMPUSES
On-Campus Event Exclusively for College Students Launches September 8 at Tennessee State University with Stops Planned at 14 Historically Black Colleges and ...
Posted Friday, August 26th 2005 at 11:40AM
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BLACK EDUCATOR DISCOVERS AMAZING STUDY SKILLS THAT HELP HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE STUDENTS TO GRADUATE
Philadelphia, PA (BlackNews.com) - According to an Indiana University report, the average student only studies for about 20 minutes a day. African ...
Posted Monday, August 22nd 2005 at 8:26PM
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A white woman, about 50 years old, was seated next to a black man during a flight. Obviously, disturbed by this, she called over the Flight Attendant.
"Madam, what is the matter?" the Flight Attendant asked. "You obviously do not see it, then?" as ...
Posted Sunday, August 21st 2005 at 7:04PM
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