When it comes to my greatest joys I often see folks enjoying them and I say "I'm living thru you". But today I have managed to make my happiness come true so if you need to you can live thru me.
Just chillaxin at the Beach with the Girls and the ki ...
Posted Saturday, July 19th 2014 at 3:04PM
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The Clown
Another popular character which has its origin in slavery
is the African-American clown.
One of the primary forms of remaining in favor with the
slave master by the slave was to provide entertainment
for the master and his household ...
Posted Thursday, July 17th 2014 at 8:45PM
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Timmy Richardson, a junior drum major in the Shaw University Band, has landed a major role in an upcoming TV series by Tyler Perry. Richardson will star as a character named “Justice” in Perry’s If Loving You is Wrong (formerly Single Mom’s Club). Th ...
Posted Tuesday, July 15th 2014 at 5:29PM
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We are excited to extend a discount to our valued HBCU Connect Community Partners:
General Admission to Urban Tech Weekend in Houston, Texas is free of charge. We are extending a special 10% exclusive discount off VIP Ticket admission to HBCU member ...
Posted Tuesday, July 15th 2014 at 2:23PM
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has strongly backed the national education guidelines known as Common Core. The standards in math and English that specify what skills a student should have for every grade.
Common Core has been criticized by ...
Posted Tuesday, July 15th 2014 at 2:01PM
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By Rosetta
Yesterday, I hiked Koko Head Crater here in Honolulu, Hawaii with my boyfriend and some of his friends. Koko Head is one of the more challenging hikes on Oahu because it’s a really steep climb up about 1,000 steps on an old railroad path.
I don’t particularly enjoy hiking (or any fo ...
Posted Tuesday, July 15th 2014 at 1:20PM
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By: Morgan State News
Chinese Government signs Memorandum of Understanding
with Historically Black Colleges & Universities in Beijing Today
HBCUs and Chinese universities meet to discuss implementation
of 1,000 scholarships for HBCU students ...
Posted Monday, July 14th 2014 at 1:42PM
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Black people today suffer from ''Acculturation''
Someone said that the greatest fraud visited upon people, is Christianity." I say that at the risk of creating hostility among the "religious". Some of ...
Posted Monday, July 14th 2014 at 11:59AM
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http://youtu.be/U5JnnWvgRjg
when black people recognize the beauty of their blackness and what it means to live in the fullness of ''black is beautiful'' then nothing can prevent them from seeking the essence of that beauty the origin of the blackn ...
Posted Sunday, July 13th 2014 at 6:14PM
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Chinese Government signs Memorandum of Understanding with Historically Black Colleges & Universities in Beijing Today
HBCUs and Chinese universities meet to discuss implementation of 1,000 scholarships for HBCU students to study in China
(B ...
Posted Friday, July 11th 2014 at 2:18PM
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Three Black businessmen started the popular Chicago Football Classic 17 years ago and the event is still thriving.
Larry Huggins, Tim Rand and Everett Rand are the founders. With the event only a two months away, the Defender thought it would be a ...
Posted Friday, July 11th 2014 at 1:54PM
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By Marilyn Young, Editor
To Nat Glover, his path to becoming president of Edward Waters College was a series of seemingly unrelated events over most of his life.
The daily chore he had to do while attending the historically black college on a ...
Posted Friday, July 11th 2014 at 1:44PM
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The people of Columbus came out yesterday to attend the unveiling of the Long Street Bridge. The highlight of this new Bridge that links the King and Lincoln district to downtown is the Wall.
The wall is over 200 ft long, and 60 feet high. There a ...
Posted Friday, July 11th 2014 at 1:07PM
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ASU President Gwendolyn E. Boyd is calling on all alumni and supporters to join in the University's new giving campaign, "30 Days of ASU."
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ASU has launched a new and simple avenue for supporters to invest in the University. President Gwendo ...
Posted Friday, July 11th 2014 at 12:20PM
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Andrew Capasso, First Coast News
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Nathaniel Glover, the president of Edward Waters College, is one of four finalists for HBCU Male President of the Year.
The award recognizes what the presidents of historically black colleg ...
Posted Wednesday, July 9th 2014 at 4:27PM
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Posted by Rodney Carmichael
When the Interdenominational Theological Center announced its "Saving the ITC" campaign with the hope of raising $2.5 million earlier this year, it sounded like another of Atlanta's historically black institutions might ...
Posted Wednesday, July 9th 2014 at 3:53PM
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In a move that many educators, prognosticators and medical practitioners saw coming for years, Georgia native Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice becomes the first woman president of Morehouse School of Medicine.
The Macon, Ga. native succeeds outgoing pr ...
Posted Wednesday, July 9th 2014 at 2:02PM
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NEW ORLEANS —Former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin, the businessman-turned-politician who became the worldwide face of the city after Hurricane Katrina, was sentenced to 10 years in prison Wednesday.
Nagin, 58, was found guilty Feb. 12 of fraud, brib ...
Posted Wednesday, July 9th 2014 at 11:37AM
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Creating and Leading the Experience
Oprah Winfrey
"I want us all to fulfill our greatest potential. To find our calling and summon the courage to live it," Oprah Winfrey says.
Friday, Oprah takes the stage in a profound, moving and intimate one-woman show. She brings her story and vision to l ...
Posted Tuesday, July 8th 2014 at 12:11PM
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Join us along with artists Kojo Kamau and Larry Winston Collins, Cultural Wall honorees, family and friends, and residents of the King-Lincoln and Discovery Districts, as we proudly unveil the first of its kind Long Street Cultural Wall.
Together ...
Posted Tuesday, July 8th 2014 at 11:07AM
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Wayne A.I. Frederick talked about the challenges facing Howard University and other historically black colleges, as well as the state of higher education in the United States. Mr. Frederick also spoke about his career as a surgical oncolo ...
Posted Monday, July 7th 2014 at 11:34AM
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With the help of students, staff and the Raleigh community we were able to show the world this is what makes us "happy." Thank you Pharrell Williams for the movement! ...
Posted Monday, July 7th 2014 at 10:46AM
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Representatives from Alabama State University recently attended a ceremony at the world acclaimed Carnegie Hall, where ASU was honored for impacting both the Civil Rights Movement and the “theater world.”
The event, titled “The Black Stars of the ...
Posted Monday, July 7th 2014 at 10:35AM
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NEW YORK--A video has recorded a violent altercation erupting between a man on a New York City subway and police officers, who apparently arrested him for the crime of nodding off while commuting home for work.
The incident occurs at the 57th stre ...
Posted Sunday, July 6th 2014 at 7:01PM
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