By Andrew Rafferty
President Barack Obama on Monday urged employers to give workers more flexibility to raise a family, saying such policies were integral for he and First Lady Michelle Obama to raise two daughters while advancing in their careers.
“I take this personally because I’m the husba ...
Posted Monday, June 23rd 2014 at 4:09PM
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The bear is on the loose, and he’s apparently hungry for fast-casual Mexican.
President Barack Obama – who’s recently been venturing outside the usual White House bubble for coffee and burger stops around the city – popped into a Washington D.C. C ...
Posted Monday, June 23rd 2014 at 4:03PM
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VSU gives their spin on Pharrell Williams' "Happy." Organized by The Student Government Association, Student Senate and Trojan Activities Board.
Special Thanks To:
Department of Mass Communications
91.3 WVST
Sankofa Dance Theater
Virginia State University Gospel Chorale
Essence of Troy Da ...
Posted Monday, June 23rd 2014 at 11:10AM
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WHEN: Today at 1:30 p.m.
WHERE: The ASU Hardy Student Center in its second-floor theatre. (Near the Acadome).
WHO: President Boyd & ASU's Nigerian students will meet with Nigerian diplomats, senators and other government
officials f ...
Posted Monday, June 23rd 2014 at 11:02AM
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"BE BOLD. BE BOUNDLESS. BMe."
BMe Awards $300,00 to Inspired Black Men, Hosts 2014 BMe Leader Awards in Baltimore, Detroit and Philadelphia
30 Everyday Black Men To Receive $10,000 Each For Their Community-Building Efforts;
Organization Stri ...
Posted Monday, June 23rd 2014 at 10:58AM
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AUSTIN--The number of black-owned businesses in Texas is growing but the firms remain small in comparison to other Texas businesses, and their owners face barriers to growth and profitability, according to a new report from the Bureau of Business Res ...
Posted Sunday, June 22nd 2014 at 4:49PM
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A rare oil painting of an African slave from circa 1733 has been acquired by Virginia’s Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, which runs the history museums at the Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Victory Center. The portrait is one of a pair of paintings ...
Posted Sunday, June 22nd 2014 at 4:36PM
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VIRGINIA--At 111-years-old Lela Babb Burden has proven that it’s never too late to get your education. Burden was awarded an honorary high school diploma from Booker T. Washington High School. Norfolk Public Schools superintendent Samuel T. King awar ...
Posted Saturday, June 21st 2014 at 5:40PM
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Media correspondent and Cheyney University of Pennsylvania alum Tanisha LaVerne Grant was on the red carpet last night for one of New York City's most anticipated events ... the inaugural of the American Black Film Festival also known as ABFF. What a ...
Posted Friday, June 20th 2014 at 5:34PM
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From theguardian.com
Thursday 19 June 2014
Speaking at a burial ground for hundreds African slaves in New York in commemoration of Juneteenth – the day in 1865 when Texas learned that the civil war had ended – Ilyasah Shabazz, daughter of human ...
Posted Friday, June 20th 2014 at 12:18PM
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Blacks In Technology is proud to announce that we are an official community partner for the #yeswecode Hackathon at the Essence Festival in New Orleans.
Join Essence Magazine, Prince, Qeyno Labs and Rebuild the Dream to empower the youth of Amer ...
Posted Friday, June 20th 2014 at 11:02AM
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TEXAS--The activist Dallas group Mothers Against Police Brutality slammed officers’ fatal shooting of a mentally ill man during the weekend.
Police said Saturday that Jason Harrison, 38, charged at officers with a screwdriver in hand, prompting tw ...
Posted Friday, June 20th 2014 at 9:36AM
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JACKSONVILLE--It took them a while to get with the times. Now they're paying the price.
A Florida school that has long been named after a Confederate general who was the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan is finally taking down signs with his ...
Posted Friday, June 20th 2014 at 9:32AM
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By Richard B. Muhammad
Jun 17, 2014
Since the 1960s and 1970s in what would today be called urban novels and movies, the persona of the pimp was presented as a model for Black males in the ghetto.
From Max Julian in the 1973 movie “The Mack” ...
Posted Friday, June 20th 2014 at 9:22AM
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June 16, 2014
As-Salaam Alaikum (Peace Be Unto You)
Another great one has passed into the pantheon of our ancestry. It is with great sorrow that we mourn the loss of Ruby Dee, a woman who was passionately concerned about the condition of her people and the condition of the world. Although she ...
Posted Friday, June 20th 2014 at 9:17AM
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National Black MBA Association, INC - Empowering Visionaries.
The Art of Leadership: Recalibrate Your Reality - Practical Steps From the NBMBAA
Regional Symposium
Register NOW for the NBMBAA Midwest Regional Symposium!
July 17, 2014 Chicago, Illinois
Join the NBMBAA as we provide practica ...
Posted Thursday, June 19th 2014 at 7:22PM
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Chicago State University is officially in the running to be the future home of the Obama Presidential Library. CSU submitted it's Request for Qualification (RFQ) document, the first official step in applying to be the home of the library, to the Obam ...
Posted Thursday, June 19th 2014 at 2:28PM
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As a Veterans Affairs Employee, I am part of a diverse team serving America's heroes.
At the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), employees and interns from all nationalities and backgrounds work together to improve Veterans' lives - in an environ ...
Posted Wednesday, June 18th 2014 at 10:59AM
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Today is a new day — and a new day is a new opportunity for God to do something amazing in your life.
You don’t have to wait for tomorrow, for next week, for next month or for next year...
Favor, blessings, healing, breakthrough, increase — the ...
Posted Tuesday, June 17th 2014 at 11:18AM
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By AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE | June 17, 2014
LONDON, June 17- Queen Elizabeth II welcomed Chinese Premier Li Keqiang to Windsor Castle on Tuesday on a visit to Britain which aims to repair strained relations between London and Beijing.
Dozens of Ch ...
Posted Tuesday, June 17th 2014 at 10:53AM
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25 to Life, a debut feature-length documentary by award-winning director and Spike Lee protégé Mike L. Brown, will have its world premiere as part of the American Black Film Festival (ABFF) in New York at SVA Theatre (333 W. 23rd Street) on Sunday, J ...
Posted Monday, June 16th 2014 at 7:23PM
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Dr. Shree R. Singh, director of Alabama State University’s Center for NanoBiotechnology Research (CNBR), has been invited to present a seminar this month on “The Emerging Field of NanoBiotechnology” at Aston University in England.
Singh, a profess ...
Posted Monday, June 16th 2014 at 4:53PM
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