HBCUConnect.com is dedicated to promoting and supporting HBCUs around the nation. One of our HBCUConnect.com members, Amanda Lewis, a single mother, attending Alabama State University recently submitted this comment on Historically Black Colleges and ...
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The Black Star News
New York's Leading Investigative Newspaper
May 30, 2005
Twenty-year-old self-made millionaire and businessman, Farrah Gray addressed the scholars at the graduation about how to become rich from the inside out. He encouraged ...
Posted Friday, July 15th 2005 at 4:22PM
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“An extraordinarily handsome man decided he had the
responsibility to marry the perfect woman so
they could produce beautiful children beyond compare
With that as his mission he began searching for the perfect woman.
Shortly thereafter he met ...
Posted Friday, July 15th 2005 at 1:50PM
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By Stephanie Wright, AOL BlackVoices columnist
Fighting to Save Bennett College
Recent events at Bennett College in Greensboro, N.C., serve as a reminder of the precarious situation of many of our black colleges and the continued necessity of our ...
Posted Thursday, July 14th 2005 at 2:56PM
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The new Reginald Lewis Museum in downtown Baltimore is Baltimore's new attraction. The Reginald Lewis Museum is both high-tech and historical. The state of Maryland will also use it to improve black history lessons in schools. ...
Posted Thursday, July 14th 2005 at 2:47PM
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More Elderly People Being Arrested for Selling Prescription Drugs
Date: Wednesday, July 13, 2005
By: Sherrel Wheeler Stewart, BlackAmericaWeb.com
A 90-year-old Mobile, Alabama woman and her 60-year-old son were ordered held without bail last w ...
Posted Thursday, July 14th 2005 at 2:14PM
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Tim O'Neal had his best finish of the season on the Nationwide Tour at the June 20-26 Northeast Pennsylvania Classic, finishing second at 15-under 269, two shots behind the winner, former PGA Tour player, Greg Kraft.
The outstanding effort allowed ...
Posted Thursday, July 14th 2005 at 1:24AM
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NEW BLACK COLLEGE
FOOTBALL COACHES IN 2005
SIAC
Morehouse - Terry Beaufort
Clark-Atlanta - Ted Bahhur
Kentucky State - Fred Farrier
Lane - Johnnie Cole
CIAA
J. C. Smith - Daryl McNeill
Livingstone - Robert Massey (Interim)
St. Paul's - ...
Posted Thursday, July 14th 2005 at 1:20AM
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Black College SIDs recognized
Hamilton, Hill get overdue honors
South Carolina State University sports information director Bill Hamilton was named the 2005 recipient of the Trailblazer Award by the College Sports Information Directors of America ...
Posted Thursday, July 14th 2005 at 1:17AM
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Hampton University Women’s Basketball to Participate in Preseason WNIT
July 7, 2005
HAMPTON, Va. – Hampton University's Basketball Team will kickoff the 2005-06 season in the Preseason Women’s National Invitational Tournament. The announcement wa ...
Posted Thursday, July 14th 2005 at 1:06AM
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Florida A&M names finalists for head football coaching position
July 7, 2005
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida A&M University on Thursday afternoon announced the five finalists recommended by a search committee to interview for the head football coachi ...
Posted Thursday, July 14th 2005 at 1:04AM
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American Cancer Society Names Alabama A & M Head Basketball Coach Vann Pettaway Man of the Year
July 9, 2005
Huntsville, Al—The American Cancer Society and a host of the country’s best college basketball coaches honored Alabama A & M men’s bask ...
Posted Thursday, July 14th 2005 at 12:58AM
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July 12, 2005
RICHMOND, Va. – Hank Aaron, Major League Baseball’s homerun king, heads up a panel to discuss how Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) can stem the decline of African-American participation in our national pastime.
T ...
Posted Thursday, July 14th 2005 at 12:55AM
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BLACK PROFESSOR CRITICIZED FOR HIS NOVEL ABOUT THE IRISH CAUSE UPROAR
Jackson, MS (BlackNews.com) - Professor Leon Newton teaches political science at Jackson State University and is a literary artist. Newton did not think his recent novel The New ...
Posted Wednesday, July 13th 2005 at 7:01PM
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Beverly Daniel Tatum, president, Spelman College selected as one of the Top Ten Black Women in Higher Education.
Before becoming president of the Atlanta women's college, Beverly Daniel Tatum, Giving academic inspection to a common phenomenon on c ...
Posted Wednesday, July 13th 2005 at 5:27PM
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Ruth Simmons, president, Brown University
Before becoming the first black woman president of Brown University in 2001 (and the first African American to head an Ivy League institution for that matter), Ruth Simmons served as president of Smith Col ...
Posted Wednesday, July 13th 2005 at 5:23PM
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Toni Morrison, professor, Princeton University
selected as one of the Top 10 Black Women in Higher Education.
Easily, the most celebrated black author in the world, Toni Morrison writes historical fiction in soul-moving and rhythmic prose. Captur ...
Posted Wednesday, July 13th 2005 at 5:22PM
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Shirley Ann Jackson, president, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is selected as one of the Top 10 Black Women in Higher Education.
A recent article in Time magazine calls Shirley Ann Jackson "the ultimate role model for women in science." The pres ...
Posted Wednesday, July 13th 2005 at 5:20PM
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Marvalene Hughes, president, Dillard University selected as one of the Top 10 Black Women in Higher Education.
Marvalene Hughes, recently appointed president of Louisiana's Dillard University has led an accomplished professional career in many are ...
Posted Wednesday, July 13th 2005 at 5:18PM
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Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, professor, Harvard University selected as one of the Top 10 Black Women in Higher Education.
Scholar, theologian and author Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham is a professor of African-American studies at Harvard. Her work, whi ...
Posted Wednesday, July 13th 2005 at 5:16PM
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Lani Guinier, professor, Harvard Law School selected as one of the Top Ten Black Women in Higher Education.
Nominated to head the civil rights division of the Department of Justice by former President Bill Clinton, Lani Guinier came to national at ...
Posted Wednesday, July 13th 2005 at 5:15PM
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Angela Davis, professor, University of California Santa Cruz selected as one of the Top 10 Black Women in Higher Education.
Angela Davis is the most controversial of our honorees. Blacklisted and arrested by the FBI for murder, kidnapping and cons ...
Posted Wednesday, July 13th 2005 at 5:13PM
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Johnnetta Cole, president, Bennett College selected as one of the Top 10 Black Women in Higher Education.
Former president of Spelman College and current president of Bennett College, Johnnetta Cole is perhaps one of the most recognizable faces in ...
Posted Wednesday, July 13th 2005 at 5:11PM
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Lezli Baskerville, president, NAFEO selected as one of the Top 10 Black Women in Higher Education.
Lezli Baskerville is the president of the National Association of Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO), an advocate organization for 118 pr ...
Posted Wednesday, July 13th 2005 at 5:09PM
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**For YEARS this 'story' has been circulating. Have you heard it before?
Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.
Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. K ...
Posted Tuesday, July 12th 2005 at 11:25AM
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