Carla Harris, vice chairman, Global Wealth Management, managing director and senior client adviser at Morgan Stanley, will speak at Alabama State University's Black History Month Convocation on February 11, 2015, at 2:30 p.m. in the Ralph D. Abernath ...
Posted Tuesday, February 10th 2015 at 10:07AM
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by Annie Maguire
Stuck on what to do for Valentine’s Day? Out of time and ideas? No worries, you can bake your way into your Valentine’s heart by sticking to these simple recipes that anyone can make!
Recipe #1: Chocolate c ...
Posted Tuesday, February 10th 2015 at 9:52AM
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By Hardeep Phull
It was 30 years ago that Eddie Murphy had his first hit. Not a movie — his first hit song.
Back in 1985, the synth-soul smash “Party All the Time” soared to No. 2 on the Billboard chart and launched what initi ...
Posted Tuesday, February 10th 2015 at 9:12AM
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By Nick Romano
This may come as a shock, but James Earl Jones was not the first person to audition for the role of Darth Vader in Star Wars, nor was he George Lucas’ first choice. We know, that’s pretty much blasphemy at this poi ...
Posted Tuesday, February 10th 2015 at 8:56AM
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Black Achievers Commemorative Edition has over 378 pages of extremely motivated African American role models with success stories starting from ground zero only to achieve tremendous success, all conquerors of obstacles and setters of goals who have ...
Posted Sunday, February 8th 2015 at 6:32PM
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The Omaha Courthouse Lynching of 1919 The infamous Omaha Courthouse Lynching of 1919 was part of the wave of racial and labor violence that swept the United States during the “Red Summer” of 1919. It was witnessed by an estimated ...
Posted Sunday, February 8th 2015 at 5:56PM
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COLBY CHRISTINA-AUDELCO “Rising Star Award” Recipient to Keynote Black History Month Celebration
Nassau County, New York - February 6, 2015 - COLBY CHRISTINA - AUDELCO "Rising Star Award Recipient" set to Keynote Black History Month Cele ...
Posted Sunday, February 8th 2015 at 10:12AM
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The basketball court in the Davey L. Whitney HPER Complex at Alcorn State University will be named in honor of former women's head basketball coach Shirley A. Gibbs-Walker during a halftime ceremony of the Lady Braves basketball contest against Jacks ...
Posted Friday, February 6th 2015 at 5:57PM
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Host Carlos Holmes interviews Ilyasah Shabazz, daughter of American Activist Malcom X. Ms. Shabazz spoke at Delaware State University as part of Black History Month. ...
Posted Friday, February 6th 2015 at 11:08AM
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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African American civil rights activist, whom the U.S. Congress later called “the first lady of civil rights”, and “the mother of the freedom movement”. On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks, age 42, refused to obey bus driver James Blake’s order that she give up he ...
Posted Wednesday, February 4th 2015 at 2:26PM
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Harper Lee to publish new novel, 55 years after To Kill a Mockingbird
Go Set a Watchman, completed in the mid-50s but lost for more than half a century, was written before To Kill A Mockingbird and features Scout as an adult
Tuesday ...
Posted Wednesday, February 4th 2015 at 2:10PM
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Fred Gray, one of the most iconic figures of the Civil Rights Movement, will be the keynote speaker at Alabama State University's 115th Founders' Day Convocation on Friday, February 6, at 10 a.m. in the Dunn-Oliver Acadome.
The t ...
Posted Wednesday, February 4th 2015 at 11:46AM
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The Home Depot, the world’s largest home improvement retailer, announced that applications are now being accepted for its 2015 Retool Your School Campus Improvement Grant Program. This program, established in 2010, provides support for campus improvement projects at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) across the country. Since the program’s inception, approximately ...
Posted Wednesday, February 4th 2015 at 10:56AM
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By MEG KINNARDAssociated Press
Nine black men arrested for integrating a whites-only South Carolina lunch counter 54 years ago may be heroes in the historic record, but in the record of the law they are still convicted trespassers.
That cri ...
Posted Wednesday, February 4th 2015 at 10:43AM
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When you look back at the times people have treated you mean
doesn't it make you feel tired?
Those same mean people are the ones who bite your style, technique,
and actions. Yet their insecurity causes them to treat you like garbage.
They toss you out.
How hurtful those situations can be.
All you want is to just have some great mome ...
Posted Wednesday, February 4th 2015 at 10:26AM
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Enjoy this free meditation from Expanding Your Happiness!
Oprah & Deepak's 21-Day Meditation Experience
Finding Your Flow: http://www.chopra.com/ccl-meditation/21dmc/free-stream.html
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Posted Wednesday, February 4th 2015 at 9:50AM
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Mary Jane Patterson was born September 12, 1840, in Raleigh, North Carolina. She was the first African American woman to receive a B.A degree. She was the oldest of Henry Irving Patterson and Emeline Eliza (Taylor) Patterson's children. There is conf ...
Posted Monday, February 2nd 2015 at 5:35PM
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January 31st marked the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery.
To commemorate the occasion new photos have been released showing some of the men and women who lived through that era &nda ...
Posted Sunday, February 1st 2015 at 7:33PM
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After dropping his critically lauded Black Messiah, D’Angelo, was the featured guest on a J.K. Simmons-hosted episode of ‘Saturday Night Live.’ The sketch comedy show featured riffs on Obamacare, Microsoft Office, and Seattle Seahaw ...
Posted Sunday, February 1st 2015 at 7:23PM
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Saviours’ Day 2015 marks the 85th year of the Nation of Islam’s existence in North America
Each year, the Nation of Islam commemorates the birth of its founder Master W. Fard Muhammad (February 26, 1877). This year’s Saviours& ...
Posted Sunday, February 1st 2015 at 5:39PM
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The Woolworth sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests which led to the Woolworth's department store chain reversing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States. While not the first sit-ins of the African-American Civil Rights ...
Posted Sunday, February 1st 2015 at 5:31PM
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SC State University's Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) troupe, "STATE of Reality," performed at the 2015 TEDxColumbiaSC Conference on Jan. 19 at the Harbison Theatre in Columbia, S.C.
TO engages audiences in discovery, critical reflecti ...
Posted Thursday, January 29th 2015 at 12:51PM
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The Huffington Post | By Dominique Mosbergen
In the wake of the death of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah Friday, discussions and stories about the Saudi leader’s life and policies have dominated the news media. O ...
Posted Thursday, January 29th 2015 at 10:03AM
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